According to local officials in Belgorod, Russia, Ukrainian drones have targeted civilians with recent strikes in the region. The attacks have left multiple people wounded in both Kursk and Belgorod.
“Two men suffered serious shrapnel wounds to the head and arms, as well as bone fractures – they are in critical condition. A woman received shrapnel wounds to the forearm and thigh, but her life is not in danger,” Khinshtein wrote, adding that all the victims are receiving medical assistance.
There was also damage to residential property, and some of the strikes were targeting moving vehicles, according to local officials.
“Two men suffered serious shrapnel wounds to the head and arms, as well as bone fractures – they are in critical condition. A woman received shrapnel wounds to the forearm and thigh, but her life is not in danger,” Khinshtein wrote, adding that all the victims are receiving medical assistance.
One woman was injured when a first-person view (FPV) drone struck her moving car on the Krasny Oktyabr-Bessonovka road, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. “She was hospitalized with shrapnel wounds to her arm and leg,” Gladkov wrote. In a similar incident in the village of Borki, a 17-year-old boy suffered a leg injury when an FPV drone struck a vehicle. Another civilian sustained shrapnel wounds to the back in an attack on the village of Bogun-Gorodok.
During Russian President Vladimir Putin’s unilaterally declared Victory Day truce from May 8 to May 11, Ukrainian forces attempted five cross-border incursions into Belgorod and Kursk regions, all of which failed, according to Russian officials. –RT
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