Gunmen shot dead 11 people at a Russian military training ground on Saturday, October 14.
According to their defence ministry, it is the latest blow to President Vladimir Putin’s forces since Russia invaded Ukraine.
On the same day, two men gunned down and injured 15 men among a group that had volunteered to take part in the war, in Russia’s southwestern Belgorod region that borders Ukraine.
The Belgorod governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov on Sunday morning confirmed no residents from his region were wounded or killed.
“A terrible event happened on our territory, on the territory of one of the military units, many soldiers were killed and wounded. There are no residents of the Belgorod region among the wounded and killed,” Gladkov said.
According to the General staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, in the 24 hours to Sunday morning, Russian forces targeted more than 30 towns and villages across Ukraine, launching five missile and 23 air strikes and up to 60 rocket attacks.
Just a day earlier, Putin said Russia should be finished calling up reservists in two weeks, promising an end to a divisive mobilization that has seen hundreds of thousands of men summoned to fight in Ukraine and vast numbers flee the country.
Ukraine President Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukrainian troops were still holding the strategic eastern town of Bakhmut despite repeated Russian attacks while the situation in the larger Donbas region remained difficult.
Zelenskiy further said almost 65,000 Russians had been killed so far since the Feb. 24 invasions, a figure far higher than Moscow’s official Sept. 21 estimates of 5,937 dead. In August, the Pentagon said Russia has suffered between 70,000 and 80,000 casualties, either killed or wounded.
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