Russia strikes Kharkiv hours after accusing Ukraine of shelling border city in retaliation

I don't think that word means what you think it means... Just a heads up, Russia, it's not called "retaliation" when you're the assholes who struck first. You're just being a whiny little bitch because Ukraine didn't roll over and take your bullying.

The Kharkiv Palace Hotel is a 5-star hotel commonly used by international visitors.

Russia shells a smaller country and kills dozens of civilians. And then has the balls to complain that people might be upset and relies on a sense of both sides being bad bullshit.

They are like the bully who hits a student but when the teachers come running over pretend they got hit worse back. And then still bully you more when the adults backs are turned. Except with much more actual murder.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Images of the earlier attack on Belgorod circulating on social media showed cars set alight and plumes of black smoke rising among damaged buildings as air raid sirens sounded.

Speaking on social media Saturday, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov described the consequences of the strike as the worst the city had faced since Moscow began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago.

The Kremlin said Russian President Vladimir Putin had been briefed on the situation, and that the country's health minister, Mikhail Murashko, was ordered to join a delegation of medical personnel and rescue workers travelling to Belgorod from Moscow.

Poland's defence forces said Friday that an unknown object had entered the country's airspace before vanishing off radars, and that all indications pointed to it being a Russian missile.

Speaking to Russian state media outlet RIA Novosti on Saturday, Russia's chargé d'affaires in Poland, Andrei Ordash, said that Moscow would not comment on the event until Warsaw had given the Kremlin evidence of an airspace violation.

Some 500 Polish Territorial Defence troops combed an area between the city of Zamosc and the border with Ukraine for any traces of the object Saturday, but officials said nothing suspicious was found.

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hours after ... retaliation

I press X for doubt. With a strict top-down command chain I don't believe the response could come that fast. My conspiracy monkey brain thinks that's the strike on Belgorod was to prevent that planned strike from Belgorod, a part of a long-going shelling, rather than the other way. They said they struck mil targets there, so maybe that was the point, and maybe they prevented some of the shelling of Kharkiv. If you turn it that way, it seems more sequential.

Not my proudest FAP