This Saturday, two civilians were killed and seven others were injured in a drone attack and strikes in the Russian region of Belgorod, bordering Ukraine, according to the regional governor. Belgorod, the regional capital, was targeted by rocket launcher strikes which damaged several residential buildings.
Two civilians were killed and seven others were injured in a drone attack and strikes in Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, the regional governor said. “It was a difficult morning,” Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on Telegram. According to him, two districts in his region were attacked by drones; one of these attacks which occurred in the Cherniansky district left one civilian dead and two injured. Belgorod, the regional capital, was targeted on Saturday morning by rocket launcher strikes which damaged several residential buildings.
69 apartments damaged by these strikes
In one building, three balconies collapsed, killing a man who lived in one of the affected apartments, said Vyacheslav Gladkov. He published a photo of a deformed gray brick building with broken windows and the debris of three balconies in front. According to him, five other people were injured and hospitalized. In total, 69 apartments, eight cars and a bus were damaged in these strikes, according to the same source.
The Russian Defense Ministry, for its part, indicated that it had destroyed eleven rockets fired by Vampire rocket launchers coming from Ukraine above the Belgorod region. The Belgorod region has recently been targeted by numerous drone attacks and strikes blamed by Russia on Ukraine, which have left more than a dozen dead in a week according to local authorities. kyiv, faced with the Russian offensive for two years, had promised to bring the fighting to Russian soil in retaliation for the numerous bombings on its territory.