After the massive airstrike by Russia, Ukraine's missile hits border city of Belgorod, that killed over 12 people on Saturday. According to Russia’s emergencies ministry, the strike had injured more than 100 people.
Images of Belgorod on social media showed cars set alight and plumes of black smoke rising from damaged buildings as air raid sirens were sounded.
Russia's Minister of Defence said in a statement that this crime “will not go unpunished”.
“The Kiev regime, which committed this crime, is trying to distract attention from defeats at the front, and also provoke us to similar action. We emphasize that the Russian Armed Forces work only on military facilities and infrastructure directly related to them...We will continue to do so. This crime will not go unpunished,” read the statement.
Earlier, Russian officials had reported shooting down 32 Ukrainian drones over the country's Moscow, Bryansk, Oryol, and Kursk regions.
Also, cross-border shelling had killed two other people in Russia as well.
Meanwhile, Russian drone strikes against Ukraine continued on Saturday. Ukraine officials said they had shot down drones across Kherson, Khmelnytskyi, and Mykolaiv regions.
Moscow had launched 122 missiles and dozens of drones against Ukraine on Friday killing over 35 people and injuring around 160. The strikes had damaged a maternity hospital, apartment blocks and schools.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, wrote on X, “Work is still underway to eliminate the consequences of yesterday’s Russian attack...In total, 159 people were injured in this terrorist attack. Unfortunately, 39 of them have been killed so far."
Poland's defence forces on Friday had said that an unknown object had entered the country's airspace before vanishing off radars. Poland claimed that all indications pointed it being a Russian missile.