Two civilians were killed and four injured in Ukrainian drone strikes in Belgorod Region, Russia on Sunday, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
A drone struck a car carrying a married couple and their son in the village of Nechyaevka. The father and son were killed at the scene; the man’s wife was hospitalized.
In Gubkin, an attack on a commercial building injured a young man and a teenage girl who were sitting in a car parked outside. The girl remains in critical condition with a brain injury and has been hospitalized. Another woman was injured in a separate strike in Belgorod, the regional capital. According to the governor, nearly a dozen residential buildings were damaged.
Ukraine has stepped up attacks deep inside Russia in recent weeks, launching more than 600 drones from Friday to Saturday. On Monday, a kamikaze drone hit a residential skyscraper in Moscow.
Russia has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting civilians with Western-supplied weapons. The Ukrainian military leadership’s decision to escalate attacks on civilian infrastructure represents a grave breach of international humanitarian law and has caused avoidable deaths and injuries.
