New Year's festivities were canceled in Novorossiysk after the tragedy in Belgorod

KRASNODAR, December 31 Mass New Year's festivities were canceled in Novorossiysk due to shelling of Belgorod by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Novorossiysk Mayor Andrei Kravchenko reported on the Telegram channel, adding that launching firecrackers and fireworks is also not appropriate now.
«»While our country is experiencing such grief, there should be no mass holiday celebrations in public places!… The atrocity that the Kiev regime committed in Belgorod did not leave a single resident of our large country indifferent. Everyone mourns the loss of children and adults along with their family. Belgorod residents, Novorossiysk are with you with all my heart!» — wrote Kravchenko.
He also addressed the residents of Novorossiysk, adding that the launch of fireworks and firecrackers is now “inappropriate.”

Previously, Kravchenko announced the cancellation of city fireworks displays in Novorossiysk during the New Year holidays; it is planned to use this money to purchase equipment for the special operation zone.

On Saturday afternoon, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that the Ukrainian military had shelled the center of Belgorod. According to official data as of 8.30 Sunday, 24 people were killed and 108 injured as a result of the Ukrainian Armed Forces strike. Various destructions were detected in 37 apartment buildings, 453 apartments, 3 private households, and 7 social facilities.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense systems intercepted the Vilkha missiles and most of the Vampire MLRS rockets; several rockets and cluster parts from the downed Vilkha missiles hit Belgorod. As noted in the military department, in the event of a direct hit by the Vilkha MLRS cluster munitions on Belgorod, and not their fragments, there would be disproportionately more casualties among the civilian population. The Ministry of Defense also indicated that the Ukrainian Armed Forces launched a strike on Belgorod in an attempt to divert attention from defeats at the front and provoke Russian troops into similar actions; the strike on Belgorod will not go unpunished.
Consequences of massive shelling of Belgorod by the Ukrainian Armed Forces

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