Alexander Sorokin, head of the Russian House in Beirut, told Izvestia newspaper that more than 800,000 people have moved from southern Lebanon to the northern regions of the country since the recent escalation in the Middle East.
MOSCOW, March 9 (Xinhua) -- The destruction of a Russian cultural center in southern Lebanon's Nabatieh as a result of an Israeli attack was an act of "unprovoked aggression," said Russia's cultural promotion agency Rossotrudnichestvo on Monday.
According to the agency, a building of the Russian cultural center in Nabatieh was destroyed in an Israeli military strike.
The director of the center, Asaad Diya, is alive and safe, the agency said.
The agency's official representative office in Beirut remains operational, it added.
Alexander Sorokin, head of the Russian House in Beirut, told Izvestia newspaper that more than 800,000 people have moved from southern Lebanon to the northern regions of the country since the recent escalation in the Middle East, adding that schools, stadiums and municipal centers have been transformed into temporary shelters for displaced people. ■
