April 1 2022, Russian media quoted Russian local officials as reporting that two Ukrainian military helicopters flew into Russian territory at low altitude, attacking an oil facility in Belgorod, Russia, and causing a fire. Two employees of the facility were injured.
Belgorod is located about 35 kilometers northeast of the Ukrainian border, and the residents of the streets near the site of the accident have been evacuated. In addition, according to Russian media reports, an explosion occurred in an ammunition depot near Belgorod earlier this week. Ukrainian media said that the ammunition depot was hit by a missile, but Russia denied that the explosion might be a “human error”. The governor of Kursk Oblast of Russia said that the security services of Kursk Oblast have been on high alert due to the air strikes by Ukrainian armed forces on Belgorod.
The Russian Ministry of Defense said on March 31 that Russian troops attacked several Ukrainian military installations the day before, which the Russian side said were used by the Ukrainian army to support the fighting in the Donbas area. Ukraine said on the same day that the situation in southern Ukraine and the Donbas region was serious.
