Leonid Slutsky. File photoMOSCOW, July 3The shelling of Belgorod and Kursk by Ukraine will not go unanswered, crimes will have to be paid «according to a severe scale of punishment,» said Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, in his Telegram channel. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, on the night of July 3, Ukrainian troops an attack on Belgorod with three Tochka-U missiles with cluster warheads. Russian air defense systems destroyed all three missiles in the air, but as a result of the defeat of Ukrainian missiles, fragments of one of them fell on a residential building. According to the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov, 21 apartment buildings and 40 private houses were damaged during the shelling. As a result, four people died, four more, including a child, were injured.Kyiv is trying to provoke Moscow into retaliatory strikes, Zakharova said. «Sooner or later you will have to pay for all crimes. And pay according to a harsh scale of punishment … I am sure that attacks on Belgorod and Kursk will not go unanswered,» Slutsky wrote. He added that such decisions Kyiv are a demonstration of «imaginary combat capability» and confirm the need for a Russian special operation in Ukraine. «Zelensky clearly needed a» bloody PR «and a demonstration of imaginary combat capability against the background of the inability of the Ukronazis to resist Russian soldiers on the battlefield… What happened only confirms that a special operation in Ukraine was necessary, including to ensure the immediate security of the territory of Russia,» the parliamentarian noted. According to him, not only Kyiv should bear responsibility. «And the responsibility for the suffering of civilians lies not only on the Ukrainian authorities, who can no longer wash off the blood, but also on their Western patrons,» he concluded.
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