Ukrainian Drone Strike Kills Woman in Belgorod Region
A woman was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on the southwestern Belgorod region, local officials said Monday morning.
The woman, who was not named, was seated inside a car alongside another woman in the town of Shebekino when she was killed in the “targeted” drone strike, according to Belgorod region Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov.
The surviving passenger was hospitalized in critical condition.
Shebekino has a population of around 40,000 people and is located close to the border with Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region.
A Ukrainian drone strike earlier in the morning wounded a bus driver in Shebekino, Gladkov said .
Shebekino and the surrounding Belgorod region have come under regular Ukrainian drone and missile attacks since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russia's Defense Ministry said its air defense systems destroyed one Ukrainian drone in the Belgorod region overnight, with another 34 drones destroyed in annexed Crimea and western Russia's Bryansk region.
On Sunday, Ukraine accused Russia of launching a record 273 drones and killing at least two people in Kyiv and the southern Kherson region.
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