Locals find shell fragments around schools in Belgorod Russia suburbs

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Local residents and schoolchildren in the Razumnoye village in Belgorod region collected shell fragments in various sizes near the secondary and music schools on Monday.

Natalya Vaingolts, deputy principal of Razumnoye Secondary School No. 1, said she heard a loud noise on Monday afternoon.

"Today, at about two o'clock in the afternoon, we heard a very loud sound and saw a terrible scene. Huge fragments began falling from the sky, [Damaging] the windows and the roof… It was very frightening. We have already collected all the fragments, you see how many of them we have collected. It's the whole box full of these fragments," she noted.

In addition, Valentina Khludeeva, caretaker at the nearby A.V. Tarasov Children's Art School, showed the collected fragments.

"We were not outside at that moment, but we heard how these fragments falling down on our roof," she said.

The governour of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported via his Telegram channel on Monday that an air defence system had engaged three aerial targets over Belgorod and the Belgorod region. Consequences on the ground are being clarified by operational services.

At the time of publication, Ukrainian authorities have not commented on the situation in Razumnoe.

Attacks in Shebekino and other parts of the Belgorod region began on Monday, May 29. According to the latest reports, five residents have been killed and dozens of others were injured. Residential, administrative and commercial buildings as well as cars, power lines and water supply systems were damaged.

On Thursday, June 1, Ukrainian Deputy Foreign Minister Andriy Melnyk said in an interview that Kyiv 'does not have any responsibility' over groups fighting inside Russia.

The 'Freedom of Russia Legion' claimed responsibility for the Belgorod attacks, reporting via its Telegram channel that since Friday, June 2, it had launched an assault together with the 'Russian Volunteer Corps' on the settlements in the Belgorod region, including the Shebekino and Graivoron districts.

Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognizing the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kyiv had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.

Kyiv denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilization, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow.

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