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Ukrainian drone retaliatory attack on Russian Belgorod district, killing 16 people; three days in a row attack on Belgorod reservoir dam, flooding the Russian military air defense hole, wounding 13 people. The Ukrainian attack was a response to the Russian air strikes in Kiev on the weekend, killing 3 people and wounding 29. Russian air defense system said to have shot down dozens of drones, but damage to local facilities aggravated the consequences of the war, Russian residents increasingly felt the cost of aggression, and the Putin-led invasion operations faced greater pressure.
1. From Saturday to Sunday, Russia launched air strikes on civilian buildings in Kiev, killing 3 people and injuring 29 others.
On Sunday, the French Broadcasting Corporation reported that Russia launched an air strike on Kiev from Saturday to early Sunday, destroying two civilian residential buildings, killing three people and injuring 29 others, including six children.
Kiev Mayor Vitaly Klitschko posted on the Telegram channel that seven injured people, including two children, have been sent to hospitals in the city for treatment.
The wreckage of the drone fell on a nine-story residential building in Kyiv's Desnyasky district, causing a fire that quickly spread to multiple floors, the mayor added.
The picture above shows an emergency counselor talking to a resident in Kiev, Ukraine, on October 26. The resident looks at his apartment building, which was damaged in a night-time Russian drone attack.
According to Ukraine's State Emergency Services Agency, the fire was extinguished by noon Sunday. Thirteen people were rescued from the upper floors of the building.
Air raid warnings had been issued in and around Kyiv for about an hour and a half, and it was not until around 00:30 a.m. that the Air Force lifted the alarm.
On October 26, after a Russian drone bombing Kiev, firefighters worked in a destroyed apartment building.
The Ukrainian Air Force said that as of Sunday morning, Russia had used 101 drones of various types in attacks on cities such as Kiev, of which about 60 were Iranian-designed Shahed. The Air Force said that by 9 a.m. local time, the air defense system had intercepted or shot down 90 drones. According to the military, five attack drones hit four locations and the intercepted drone fragments landed in five locations.
On Sunday afternoon, Ukraine President Zelensky said Russia had fired nearly 1,200 attack drones, more than 1,360 guided aerial bombs and more than 50 missiles at civilian targets in Ukraine in just one week.
2. Ukraine retaliated against Russia's Moscow, Belgorod and other regions. Belgorod initially reported at least 16 casualties.
DPA on October 27 reported that on Sunday, d1, the day after Russia carried out missile and drone strikes on Ukraine, Ukrainian drones retaliated with Moscow, Belgorod and other regions.
According to the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin, the Russian military shot down two drones flying to Moscow.The mayor posted on Telegram that experts are analyzing the debris of the dropped drone.
Due to the serious information blockade in Moscow, the consequences of drone attacks on Moscow are not yet known. But in the Belgorod region, where the information blockade was slightly relaxed, officials admitted that at least 16 people were killed or injured in drone strikes in Ukraine.
Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov tweeted on his Telegram channel that Ukrainian troops targeted the village of Maslova Pristina in the region, killing 10 people, including two minors, but he did not disclose detailed details of injuries and deaths.
Two buildings were severely damaged by drone bombs, he said in the post. Later Sunday, Gradkov went on to post on his Telegram channel to report that six more victims were killed or injured in the drone strike at another location in the state.
Meanwhile, in the city of Belgorod, the regional capital, three people were killed or injured, including a soldier. In the village of Dorogosh, in the region bordering Ukraine, three more casualties, including a 14-year-old teenager.
Third, Ukrainian drones again attacked the water tank dam in Belgorod, the water tank gate was severely damaged, the Russian air defense hole was flooded, and at least 13 people were wounded.
On Monday, Russia's Svoboda Radio reported that the Belgorod Reservoir Dam in the Belgorod region of Russia, on the North Donets River near the Ukraine border, was severely damaged after the attack by the Ukraine military, and the water leakage was serious. The water level of the reservoir dropped rapidly. The Russian bomb shelter in Belgorod had been submerged by the rising water level.
The Russian online media Ashes Telegram channel posted photos and videos of the aftermath of the attack, claiming that the dam was hit by HIMARS multiple rocket launchers on Sunday, the sluice on the dam body of the reservoir was severely damaged and broken, and the water leakage was very serious. It was also attacked by drones on Saturday.
According to reports, two days after the attack on the Belgorod Reservoir dam, the structure was severely damaged. This is the first time that an attack by the Ukrainian armed forces has caused significant damage to hydraulic structures in Russia.
The Ukrainian military on Friday began the attack on the reservoir dam. The attack used U.S. GMLRS missiles. As a result, several facilities and institutional buildings of one of the water gates were damaged, and two people were injured.
The dam was once again targeted on Sunday afternoon. According to the Shot channel, a Russian online outlet close to security forces, the attack was carried out by a drone. According to the Defense Department report, 34 drones were shot down over the region on Sunday. In the Shebekinsky district, where the reservoir is located, a drone attack caused 11 casualties.
On Saturday, Belgorod Governor Viatcheslav Gladkov confirmed the strike. According to him, if the dam is destroyed, several streets of the river district and settlement in the Harkov region will face the threat of flooding, where about 1,000 residents live. The dam stands on the river Sevilskytonets. Under the river stream in the Harkov region is Wolfschansch. Gladkov said authorities have begun to provide departure services to the temporary accommodation center for some inhabitants of the city of Shevchenko and the village of Bedliwódka.
On Sunday evening, the water level of the reservoir began to drop sharply. Bergorod and military telegram channels released a video showing the water of the reservoir leaking through the damaged dam gate.
By Monday morning, according to the Pepel Belgorod channel, the water had risen more than a meter from the shore. In the village of Grafovka in the Shebekinsky district, water flooded a bomb shelter where Russian troops were located.
Satellite imagery also shows a possible leakage during the breakthrough of the Bergorod dam.
The images, which will be posted on Social networks X, compare conditions around the dam on October 20 and 26.
At the same time, images show a leakage above the dam. It is not clear how the flood occurred above the dam.
According to Gladkov, by Monday morning, 10 settlements had been flooded.Yuri Paramonov, the agent director of the reservoir, said there was a risk of flooding in the Harkov region, while the consequences of the breakthrough would be small in the Bergorod district.
The 16th Corps of the Ukrainian Armed Forces confirmed that the dam was attacked and said that “after the bombing of the Bergorod Dam, the latter began to leak water”.The Ukrainian military claimed that “thus, the troops who managed to cross the northern Donetsk River were actually isolated from the main force in the Volvchansk region.”
The Ukrainian telegraph channel Exilenova+ wrote that the destruction of the dam would cause Russian military positions to be flooded and hinder their operations in the northern Donetsk region.
As a result of the Ukrainian counterattack, Russians also increasingly feel the consequences of the war.
Since the beginning of the war over three and a half years ago, Russia has frequently attacked civilian areas in Ukraine.While Russian residents, especially residents in border areas, are facing greater pressure from Russian-led invasions as a result of Ukraine’s counterattack, domestic facilities are being severely damaged, aggravating the war’s consequences and the cost of aggression.
Of course, with Ukrainian attacks targeting Russian military and important economic targets more, the number of victims and extent of destruction in Russia cannot be compared to the destruction caused by Russian forces in Ukraine.
The Author: Xu三郎