Thousands evacuated in Ukraine as Russia pounds border town
- Russia is making small advances in an area it was pushed back from in 2022. Meanwhile, it said several people died after Ukraine targeted the city of Belgorod
- President Zelensky has again urged allies to speed up arms deliveries in the fight against Moscow
The surprise Russian attack across Ukraine’s northeastern border began on Friday, with troops making small advances in an area from where they had been pushed back nearly two years ago.
“In total, 4,073 people have been evacuated,” Kharkiv regional governor Oleg Synegubov wrote on social media, a day after Russian forces claimed the capture of five villages in the region.
Meanwhile, at least seven people were killed and 15 injured when a whole section of a multi-storey block of flats collapsed after a Ukrainian missile strike in the Russian city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, Russian officials said.
Footage from the scene posted by Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the region, showed at least 10 storeys of the building collapsing.
“The city of Belgorod and the Belgorod region were subjected to massive shelling by the armed forces of Ukraine,” Gladkov said. “As the result of a direct hit by a shell into an apartment building, the entire entrance from the tenth to the first floor collapsed.”