At least four people injured in another Ukrainian airstrike over the Russian Belgorod region

May 26. () –

At least four people were injured this Saturday as a result of a new air attack with Ukrainian missiles carried out over the Russian region of Belgorod, local authorities have reported.

“Our air defense system has acted over Belgorod: 29 air targets have been shot down when approaching the city,” the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported via Telegram, adding that “four civilians have been injured according to preliminary reports.” “.

“Three people are being treated at the municipal hospital number 2 in Belgorod, of which two men with traumatic brain injuries are in serious condition and a woman has a shrapnel wound in the left lower limb. Doctors assess their condition as moderate. Another victim with shrapnel wounds to the face and chest has been taken by ambulance to the regional clinical hospital,” Gladkov detailed in his communication.

As far as material consequences are concerned, the authorities have reported “serious damage to two apartments in two apartment buildings and two cars, which were completely burned.” Similarly, minor damage – mainly broken windows – has been identified in another 46 apartments in ten blocks of flats, in school number 43 and boarding school number 23, in three commercial properties and three other cars.

In addition, the direct impact of a projectile caused a fire in a house in the town of Dubovoe. Despite the quick action of firefighters, while the fire was extinguished, the flames have spread to two neighboring houses.

“A semi-detached house was completely burned, while the roof and upper floors of the second and third houses were damaged. The fires have already been extinguished,” said the governor of Belgorod, stating that operational services are working on the situation. terrain, in these and other affected points, and that “the information on the consequences of the bombing will be clarified.”

Prior to the publication of this report, the Russian Defense Ministry had shared a post saying that “at approximately 22:30 Moscow time, an attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack against targets in the territory of the Russian Federation’ using the ‘Neptune’ anti-ship missile (ASM) and the RM-70 Vampire multiple launch rocket system.”

Specifically, “service air defense systems destroyed one ‘Neptune’ anti-ship missile system and 29 Vampire MLRS missiles over the Belgorod region,” the aforementioned message read.

These attacks occur on the same day that at least six people have died, 40 have been injured and 16 more have disappeared after at least two Russian aerial bombs hit a DIY hypermarket in the capital of the same name in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv. , in the north of the country.