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Ukraine's attacks on Belgorod disrupt first day at school, governor says

Monday, 02 September 2024 9:43 AM [ Last Update: Monday, 02 September 2024 9:43 AM ]

The handout photograph released on September 1, 2024, on the official Telegram account of the Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, shows a firefighter extinguishing a car after a recent shelling by a Ukrainian strike in Belgorod, Russia. (Via AFP)

Some kindergartens will shut for a week in the Russian city of Belgorod near Ukraine's border while several schools will hold online classes after a Kiev attack destroyed a child care facility on Monday, the region's governor said.

"It's a bad morning for the Belgorod region," the governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said in a post on social network VKontakte the day classes were set to resume after the summer vacation.

"A kindergarten in the city of Belgorod has been almost completely destroyed."

After the attack, authorities decided that several schools in the city's large district of Kharkovskaya Gora would hold classes online, while kindergartens would be shut for a week, Gladkov said.

Russia's air defense units destroyed one Ukraine-launched drone overnight, the defense ministry said on the Telegram messaging app.

Reuters could not independently verify the reports. Ukrainian forces have long subjected the city of Belgorod and nearby districts to shelling and other attacks. Kiev says its attacks target infrastructure key to Moscow's war efforts.

On Sunday, Gladkov said Ukraine's shelling killed one person and injured more than a dozen in the region, the administrative center of which is the city of Belgorod.

(Source: Reuters)

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