The Russian Defense Ministry says three Ukrainian-launched Tochka-U cluster missiles were shot down.
The Russian military said it shot down at dawn on Sunday three Ukrainian missiles launched against the town of Belgorod, near Ukraine, where a local official had previously announced the death of at least four people after explosions.
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“Russian anti-aircraft defenses shot down the three Tochka-U cluster missiles launched by Ukrainian nationalists against Belgorodsaid Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov during his daily briefing. “After the destruction of Ukrainian missiles, the remains of one of them fell on a house in the city“, he continued.
Two Ukrainian dronesloaded with explosives» slaughtered
According to him, the Russian army also shot down two Ukrainian TU-143 drones.loaded with explosivesand heading towards the city of Kursk, also close to the Ukrainian border.
In a video released midday on Sunday, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, claimed that these explosions in Belgorod had left at least four people dead and four injured. Earlier, he claimed that eleven residential buildings and 39 houses were damaged in the five streets affected by the explosions and located in northern Belgorod, not far from the city center.
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Since the start of the Kremlin’s offensive in Ukraine on February 24, Russia has repeatedly accused Ukrainian forces of carrying out strikes on Russian soil, particularly in the Belgorod region. In early April, Vyacheslav Gladkov accused Ukraine of carrying out an attack against a fuel depot in Belgorod with two helicopters.
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