Seven injured in cross-border shelling from Ukraine – media

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A border crossing and nearby village reportedly came under mortar fire on Thursday

Seven people, including a pregnant woman and a child, were injured on Thursday in a shelling that targeted a village in Russia located close to the border with Ukraine, local health officials told TASS news agency. A separate attack targeting a nearby border crossing was reported by the guards.

The first incident happened in the village of Klimovo in Russia’s Bryansk Region, some 10km north of the border, when projectiles presumably fired by Ukrainian troops hit residential buildings, according to local officials. All seven victims were taken to hospital, according to TASS, with three of them reported to be in a serious condition.

Projectiles fired by Ukrainian troops hit residential buildings, Governor Aleksandr Bogomaz said, confirming that an unspecified number of people had been injured.

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The second attack hit the Novye Yurkovichi checkpoint, some 40km southwest of Klimovo, according to a statement released by the local border guard branch of the FSB. It said mortar shells fired from Ukrainian territory had hit at the moment when a group of refugees from Ukraine were crossing the border. Two vehicles were damaged, but no casualties were reported.

A video purporting to show the aftermath of the shelling was published earlier in the day on social media. It showed a car and a van with signs of damage, presumably caused by shrapnel from mortar rounds.

The border guards’ statement said the firing position had been “suppressed.”

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