Ukrainian strikes rock Russia as vote cements Putin's grip on power

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MOSCOW: Ukrainian bombardments killed two people in a Russian border region on Saturday (Mar 16), its governor said, on the second day of a presidential election&

Russia's frontier region of Belgorod has suffered a spate of fatal Ukrainian attacks in recent weeks. MOSCOW: Ukrainian bombardments killed two people in a Russian border region on Saturday , its governor said, on the second day ofPolls opened this week but voting has been marred by an uptick in fatal Ukrainian bombardments and a series of incursions into Russian territory by pro-Ukrainian sabotage groups.

"A man was driving a lorry when a shell hit him, after which the car crashed into a passenger bus. The people on it were not injured," Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on social media. Russia's defence ministry earlier said it had downed rockets, missiles and drones in the border regions of Belgorod and Kursk that have suffered an uptick in fatal attacks in recent weeks.The ministry later said it had fought off more"attempts to infiltrate into the territory of the Russian Federation by Ukrainian militant sabotage and reconnaissance groups".

He is running unchallenged, having barred two candidates who opposed the conflict in Ukraine, and around one month after his main opponent, Alexei Navalny,

 

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