MOSCOW — A Russian governor has accused Ukraine of bombing a fuel storage facility in western Russia with helicopters and starting a massive fire in Kyiv’s first reported airstrike on Russian soil.
The Kremlin said the reported Ukrainian airstrike on Belgorod, a town about 40 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border, would hamper future peace talks.
“Of course, this is not something that can be considered comfortable conditions for further negotiations,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters.
Also on Friday, Russian and Ukrainian negotiators resumed peace talks via video conference after holding face-to-face talks in Istanbul earlier this week.
Ukraine’s foreign and defense ministries said they could neither confirm nor deny that kyiv was behind the attack.
“I am a civilian,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told reporters in Warsaw.
Defense Ministry spokesman Oleksandr Motuzyanyk said Ukraine “should not take responsibility for all the miscalculations, all the disasters and all the events unfolding on Russian soil” .
The incident marked the first time Russia has reported a Ukrainian airstrike on its territory since the start of the conflict.
Russia’s announcement came on the 37th day of Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, which has killed thousands and displaced more than 10 million in Europe’s worst refugee crisis since World War II.
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