A man was killed and two people were injured by shrapnel from Ukrainian drones shot down by Russian forces in the Belgorod region, bordering Ukraine, according to local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. “HAS our great misfortune, a civilian was killed, hit by shrapnel” near the village of Belenkoye, in the west of the Belgorod region, he wrote on Telegram.
Another civilian was injured and hospitalized in the same village of Belenkoye, according to him, while a woman was injured and hospitalized in Chebekino, in the south of the region.
During the night from Tuesday to Wednesday, Russian anti-aircraft defense neutralized three Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region, according to the Russian Defense Ministry. Russian forces said they shot down six Grad system rockets in this area.
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Moreover, “one person was killed and two others were injured” in Lyssychansk, a city conquered by the Russian army in 2022, by Ukrainian fire, according to the rescue services cited by the Russian agency TASS.
A drone also hit a commuter train which was traveling without passengers in the region and the railway track was damaged between the villages of Naoumovka and Oktiabrskoye (south), in the Belgorod region, said Vyacheslav Gladkov.
