BELGOROD (Sputnik) – Several explosions were head in Russia’s Belgorod on Monday when the missile alert was on, a Sputnik correspondent reported.
Plumes of smoke can be seen above the central part of the city, according to the correspondent.
Late on Monday night, the Russian Defense Ministry issued a statement saying that it shot down another Ukrainian drone over the Belgorod area.
«On July 8 of this year, at about 11:10 p.m. Moscow time, another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted. The Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod region by air defense systems on duty,» the ministry’s report said (translated).
Later in the day, the Russian Defense Ministry said that air defense shot down one Ukrainian fixed-wing drone over the Belgorod Region.
The missile alert was lifted in Belgorod and the Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said, adding that one person was killed and two others were injured in the attack.
The governor added that several air targets were destroyed on approach to Belgorod.
