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The Ukrainian military has destroyed 21 of a total of 49 drones launched that night by Russia, Reuters reported, citing the air force in Kiev.
Most of the Russian drones were aimed at Ukrainian front lines, as well as at civilian, military and infrastructure sites in Kharkiv, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine, the air force added.
Meanwhile, the number of people killed in yesterday’s airstrike against the Russian city of Belgorod, north of the border with Ukraine, reached 22 people, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, announced today.
“Unfortunately and to our sorrow, the number of dead has increased after yesterday’s shelling of Belgorod, they reached 22 people,” Gladkov wrote in “Telegram”.
Three children were among the dead, and 111 people were injured.
According to the governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, the airstrike damaged 30 residential buildings, several houses and cars.
The Russian Defense Ministry said yesterday that Ukraine had hit Belgorod with several missiles of different types, adding that most of them were shot down, but some debris fell on the city.
Reuters was unable to independently verify Russia’s reports.
The Ukrainian news agency RBC-Ukraine cited sources as saying that Ukrainian forces struck military targets in Belgorod yesterday in response to massive Russian bombing of Ukrainian cities the previous day.
The Russian newspaper “Kommersant” wrote that Ukraine fired the missiles at Belgorod from the Kharkiv region, located on the other side of the border.
Hours after the attack on the city, Russia launched a series of airstrikes against Kharkiv, injuring at least 21 people. Damage was also caused to residential buildings, Ukrainian officials said.
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