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Two volunteer soldiers shoot at Russian troops, killing 11 at a military firing range near Ukraine

2022-10-15T22:59:45.642Z


Russia has called the incident a "terrorist attack" and has begun evacuating civilians in southern Ukraine, a sign it doesn't think it can hold the territory, analysts say. Meanwhile, the US announced a new shipment to Ukraine of hundreds of millions of dollars of military weapons and medical equipment.


Two men fired on a group of soldiers at a Russian military firing range near Ukraine on Saturday.

The attack claimed the lives of 11 people and left 15 injured.

The attackers were also killed, the AP agency reported, citing information from the Russian Defense Ministry.

The attack occurred in the Belgorod region of southwestern Russia, about 80 kilometers north of the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

The Russian ministry called the incident a "terrorist attack" and said the attackers were from a former Soviet country it did not identify.

They shot at the soldiers during target practice.

[Russia detains 8 people and blames Ukraine for Crimean bridge explosion]

The attack came just a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that more than 200,000 reservists have been recruited and 16,000 have already been deployed to reinforce Russian military forces on Ukrainian soil.

At a news conference, Putin said he "does not" regret invading Ukraine.

The Russian president noted that the mobilization to strengthen the Russian army is almost complete.

"This work is coming to an end," Putin told reporters at a conference attended by regional leaders in the Kazakh capital Astana, reported NBC News, the sister network of Noticias Telemundo.

A Ukrainian soldier places flowers on the grave of a fallen soldier, during the celebration of the Defenders of Ukraine Day, in Kharkiv, Friday, October 14. Francisco Seco / AP

The order,

the first mobilization of reservists in Russia since World War II,

sparked protests across the country, as thousands of Russians tried to avoid the call by fleeing to neighboring countries including Georgia, Belarus and Armenia.

Putin assured that "for now", Russia does not plan new airstrikes like the ones it carried out this week, when it fired more than 100 long-range missiles at targets across Ukraine, in response to the explosion that damaged a major bridge connecting Russia with the annexed peninsula of Crimea.

American aid

On Friday, the US Department of Defense announced that it is preparing a new shipment of weapons to reinforce the Ukrainian army.

The aid package, valued at more than $700 million, includes missiles, rockets, 5,000 anti-tank weapons, small arms, ammunition, medical equipment and more than 200 combat vehicles known as Humvees.

"The United States has provided unprecedented security assistance to Ukraine and will continue to work with allies and partners to ensure Ukraine has the support it needs," the Pentagon said in a statement.

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According to the Pentagon, the

United States has sent Ukraine more than $17 billion in security assistance.

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. The conflict has claimed more than 14,000 civilian lives and more than 8,000 people injured, according to a United Nations report released in September.

According to press reports, the Kremlin still does not appear to be sure that its army can contain a Ukrainian counteroffensive before winter.

[The dramatic images of the Russian attack on a dozen cities in Ukraine]

This week, Russian officials deployed in southern Ukraine urged pro-Russian civilians to evacuate to Russia, in a sign that

Moscow is concerned about its control over the strategic region

as the Ukrainian military pushes to recapture more land in the region. after recent developments, NBC News reported.

On Thursday, the head of the Russian-installed regional administration, Vladimir Saldo, called on Moscow to open the door to families in the Kherson region who want to "protect" themselves from what he described as constant Ukrainian shelling.

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The Kremlin supported the initiative and some officials in the Rostov region in southern Russia said the first civilian arrivals were expected on Friday, according to a report by the state news agency Tass, which is collected by NBC News.

Some analysts told the news network that these actions show Russian concern that it will not be able to maintain control of Kherson in the face of an offensive by the Ukrainian army, just weeks after announcing that it was annexing the region.

[Why is the Crimean bridge so important to Putin?]

"You don't evacuate from a region that you've recently (and illegally) annexed if you're sure you're going to be able to hold it," Phillips O'Brien, a professor of strategic studies at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, told NBC News.

"I think we can read this as a sign that they are very concerned about their ability to control the west bank of the Dnieper River," he explained.

Source: telemundo

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