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Belgorod

Nadin Brzezinski
3 min readJul 3, 2022

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Destroyed house in Belgorod

And now here is the update with exactly what I expected.

The war came to this border city overnight. Those of us paying attention to things that go boom in the night caught the big explosion. Ukraine has successfully attacked strategic targets before, so a big boom would not surprise us. Perhaps the target was the local refinery, or like earlier in the war, an ammo dump?

All these have been accidents, according to the Federation. Overnight Russia used Pantsir Anti-Air systems and from the evidence on the ground, it connected. Likely it was a Tochka or other short to medium missile system in Ukrainian service.

Unlike video games, the warhead still fell to the ground, into a residential area. There were people killed. A house was completely destroyed, and multiple others were damaged.

According to local media:

Today’s night and morning in Belgorod in one video 🙏

Recall that as a result of the explosion in…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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