MOSCOW — An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the city of Belgorod near the Russian border with Ukraine killed two people and injured 13, local authorities said on Sunday, Reuters reported. Another person was killed and one was injured in a village near the town of Shebekino, the authorities said — bringing the regional toll from the overnight attacks to three killed and 14 injured, according to the Russian authorities' account.
Source: Reuters via SRN News
“The attack has damaged 30 blocks of flats, 35 cars, four houses, three administrative buildings, eight commercial premises and three social facilities,” Belgorod regional governor Alexander Shuvayev said, according to Reuters. These are figures given by the Russian regional authorities; Ukraine had not commented on the Belgorod attack in the Reuters report, and the claims could not be independently verified from the report.
Source: Reuters via KELO-FM
Our first report on this overnight attack, based on preliminary local reporting and eyewitness footage, put the Belgorod city toll at one civilian killed and 10 injured. The governor's fuller Sunday account, reported by Reuters, supersedes those preliminary figures. Read the first report
Particle News' synthesis of the overnight drone exchange likewise reported the massive Ukrainian drone swarm on Belgorod and noted that Russian authorities had not released detailed damage or death tolls at the time of its earlier reporting — the governor's statement carried by Reuters is the first detailed official inventory of the damage.
Source: Particle News
Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine's Kharkiv region, has been repeatedly hit by Ukrainian drone and missile attacks since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Ukrainian attacks on Russian border and industrial regions have intensified alongside Russian strikes on Ukrainian cities. Casualty and damage figures in this war are given by the authorities on each side and are reported here with that attribution.