Moscow: One person has been killed and two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, the regional governor said Thursday.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram that “the town of Shebekino was targeted by Ukrainian forces” and “unfortunately, one person was killed.”
Two other people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, he said, while the airstrikes also damaged an administrative building.
Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday it had shot down a drone over the Belgorod region overnight.
Two more drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, which also borders Ukraine, and three others were neutralized over annexed Crimea, the ministry said in a Telegram statement.
The Belgorod region has come under heavy fire, and earlier this month residents were evacuated from several border villages.
On Monday authorities in Belgorod said six civilians had been killed in attacks.
Earlier this month, Kyiv’s troops launched a major counter-offensive into the neighboring Kursk region, two and a half years after the start of the conflict.
One killed, two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod
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One killed, two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod
- Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday it had shot down a drone over the Belgorod region overnight
US lawmaker Fine criticized by rights advocates, Democrats after anti-Muslim remarks
- Fine’s past comments include calling for the mass expulsion of all Muslims from the US, labeling of Muslims as “terrorists” and the mocking of the starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza, among others
WASHINGTON: Rights advocates and multiple Democrats on Tuesday condemned anti-Muslim comments by Republican US Representative Randy Fine who said on Sunday that “the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one.”
Fine, whose comments against Muslims have often sparked outrage, has dismissed the criticism and since doubled down on his remarks on social media. The Council on American-Islamic Relations designated the Republican US lawmaker from Florida as an anti-Muslim extremist last year.
“If they force us to choose, the choice between dogs and Muslims is not a difficult one,” Fine said on X on Sunday in a post that had over 40 million views as of Tuesday afternoon.
Some high-profile Democrats including California Governor Gavin Newsom called for him to resign while House of Representatives Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called Fine an “Islamophobic, disgusting and unrepentant bigot.”
Jeffries also called for Republicans — who hold a majority in both chambers of Congress — to hold Fine accountable.
“To ignore this is to accept and normalize it,” Democratic US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said. Fine’s past comments include calling for the mass expulsion of all Muslims from the US, labeling of Muslims as “terrorists” and the mocking of the starvation and killing of Palestinians in Gaza, among others. Rights advocates have noted a rise in Islamophobia in the US in recent years due to a range of factors including hard-line immigration policies and white-supremacist rhetoric, as well as the fallout of Israel’s war in Gaza on American society.
