One person was killed and two others injured on Tuesday, May 30, in a Ukrainian bombing of a center for displaced people in the border region of Belgorod, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov announced. “Ukrainian Armed Forces fired artillery at a center for displaced people housing elderly civilians and children…a security guard was killed and two people were injured,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.
According to him, the two injured are “in serious condition in intensive care” with “penetrating injuries to the abdomen” for one, to the chest for the other.
He accompanied his message with photographs of a damaged building with shattered windows, a ditch caused by an impact near the cabin of the security guard, and adults and children being evacuated in bus.
The region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, has been repeatedly targeted by Ukrainian bombardments, as well as by attempted incursions by armed groups from Ukraine. These events come as kyiv says it is preparing a major counter-offensive intended to repel Russian forces from the territories they occupy in Ukraine.