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Russia expressed condolences to its ally Iran after Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdullahian were killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the ministers “have always been considered true friends in Russia”.

“The Russian Federation expresses its sincere condolences to the families and friends of the victims of the plane crash and to the entire friendly Iranian people,” Lavrov said, according to state news agency TASS.

Since the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the alliance between Russia and Iran has deepened. Tehran accused of supplying Moscow with thousands of one-way attack drones, missiles and artillery shells used against Ukraine. Iran denies supplying weapons to Russia.

— Holly Elliot

Multiple air raid warnings were issued in Russia’s Belgorod region on Monday morning, with the regional governor warning residents to seek shelter.

Previously, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on telegram The town of Shebekino was attacked by Ukrainian drones. No civilians were injured, but two apartment buildings were damaged.

The latest attack, which Ukraine has not yet confirmed, came a day after 13 people were wounded in attacks on several towns in the Belgorod border region on Sunday.

Belgorod has become the focus of Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s border region; Russia says one of the main reasons for launching a new offensive in Kharkov in northeastern Ukraine, adjacent to Belgorod, is to create a “buffer zone” to protect its border areas.

Gradkov said Ukrainian forces attacked Shebekino with multiple rockets on Sunday, injuring 11 people, including three children, and damaging apartment buildings and cars in the town. He said the village of Rzhevka in the east of the town was also shelled, injuring two people and damaging a house.

CNBC was unable to verify the reports, and Ukraine did not comment on the attack; it rarely does so when it comes to attacks on Russian soil. Russia and Ukraine have both said they do not target civilians or civilian infrastructure.

— Holly Elliot

A day of mourning was declared in the northeastern region of Kharkiv on Monday after Russian troops shelled a popular leisure resort and several villages on Sunday, killing 11 civilians and wounding others.

“May 20 is a day of mourning in the Kharkiv region,” Oleh Syniehubov, the head of the Kharkiv region’s state administration, said on Telegram on Sunday evening after several attacks.

“The occupiers shelled the villages of Kivsharivka, Novoosynove (in the Kupiansk district) and the Malodanyliv neighborhood (on the outskirts of Kharkiv), killing 11 people. Among the dead was a pregnant woman,” he said.

Since the Russian army launched a new offensive in the border area on May 10, Kharkiv has become the primary target of Russian attacks.

Sinehupov said a lakeside resort in Cherkaskarozova, a suburb of Kharkiv, was also among the areas attacked on Sunday, killing at least five people and injuring 16 others, including two ambulancemen. personnel.

He accused Russia of carrying out a “double attack”, following the first with a second attack to kill emergency service workers who rushed to the scene. Russia says it does not target civilians. In a separate attack, one person was killed in shelling by Russian troops in Wovchansk, a border town believed to be partially occupied by Russian troops.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has asked the country’s Western allies to provide him with additional air defense systems to protect Kharkiv.

Zelensky said in an interview with the Telegraph on Sunday that “the world can stop Russia’s terrorist activities, and to do this it must overcome the lack of political will of the leaders. Two sets of ‘Patriot’ (missile defense systems) will fundamentally Change the situation in Kharkov.

—️Holly Elliot