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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Jonathan Yerushalmy

Belgorod: the Russian region now part of Putin’s war on Ukraine

The letter Z, a symbol of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is displayed in Belgorod
The letter Z, a symbol of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is displayed in Belgorod. Photograph: Victor Berezkin/Zuma Press Wire Service/REX/Shutterstock

On a cool night in April, a Russian warplane dropped a bomb on to a busy city, ripping up the road and sending debris flying across the highway. No one was killed, but the explosion was so powerful that it left a 20-metre crater in the ground and blew a parked car on to the roof of a nearby shop.

It’s an incident that in Ukraine is now commonplace. But the airstrike on 21 April hit a Russian city.

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