‘Ukrainian air attack on Russia’s Belgorod region injured eight people and destroyed scores of residential buildings and cars’, said the governor of the region bordering with Ukraine. The governor of Belgorod said, ‘An 11-year-old girl was injured and taken to the hospital’.
He reported on the messaging application Telegram that the attack also destroyed around 34 apartments in 19 buildings and about 30 vehicles in the city. ‘Russia’s air defence systems destroyed 15 rockets launched from the RM-70 Vampir system, and one drone over the region’, stated Russia’s defence ministry.
The Ministry said in a statement, ‘Three drones were also downed over Russia’s Kursk region and two over the Bryansk region’. However, there was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Kyiv has said often that destroying military, energy and transport infrastructure inside Russia undermines Moscow’s overall war efforts.
In the attack, hydropower and thermal power plants were damaged. Ukraine warned of possible power shutdowns across the country, said Ukraine’s grid operator Ukrenergo.
The state power operator Ukrenergo also said it was limiting supplies across the country. It said in a statement, ‘Ukrenergo’s dispatch centre is forced to limit power supply to industry and business from 18:00 to 23:00. The scope of the restrictions will be distributed evenly among all regions’.
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