several drone attacks in the Russian region of Belgorod

Published on : 05/23/2023 – 08:06

• 7:55 a.m .: several drone attacks in the Russian region of Belgorod

Several drone attacks targeted houses and an administrative building in the Russian region of Belgorod overnight from Monday to Tuesday, the target Monday of an incursion by armed fighters from Ukraine, local authorities said.

These attacks, which took place in Graivoron, the capital of the district of the same name, and in the village of Borissovka, did not cause any casualties or injuries, the governor of the Belgorod region said on Telegram. Vyacheslav Gladkov.

• 5:44 a.m.: le Russian Prime Minister in Shanghai for an economic forum

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Michoustin is in Shanghai on Tuesday to attend an economic forum, part of a two-day visit during which he will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Mikhail Michoustine arrived in Shanghai late Monday evening, the Russian Foreign Ministry said. He was welcomed by the Russian Ambassador to China, Igor Morgoulov, as well as by the Chinese Ambassador to Moscow, Zhang Hanhui.

In Shanghai, the Russian prime minister is due to attend a Russia-China business forum and visit a petrochemical research institute, the Kremlin says, and also hold talks with “representatives of Russian business circles” in China .

• 1:44 a.m .: Moscow denounces anti-Russian and anti-China G7 rhetoric

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that the rhetoric used by the G7 over nuclear power was only intended to exert psychological, military and political pressure on Russia and China.

During a summit in Japan last week, G7 leaders issued a statement on nuclear disarmament for the first time in which they called on Moscow and Beijing to be more transparent about their nuclear arsenals, to imitate the United States, Great Britain and France.

The Russian deputy foreign minister considered that the document illustrated the anti-Russian and anti-China tone of the G7, with “the sole objective of exerting psychological and military-political pressure on Russia and China”. “There is clearly a pathological desire behind this to denigrate our countries,” Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s main arms control representative, added in comments posted on his ministry’s website.

• The essentials of the day of May 22

The Russian region of Belgorod was the target on Monday of an incursion by armed fighters from Ukraine, which forced Russia to decree an “anti-terrorist” regime and to evacuate civilians in an attempt to repel this new attack on its soil. This large-scale attack, with several villages hit by shells, illustrates the permeability of the Russian defenses.

The Russian paramilitary group Wagner said its forces would withdraw from Bakhmout from May 25 to 1^er June and cede their positions to the regular army, after having claimed the capture of this symbolic city of eastern Ukraine.

With AFP and Reuters