Six people were killed and four others injured during overnight Ukrainian missile strikes on Russia's Belgorod region. Belgorod's acting governor Alexander Shuvaev says the missile strikes damaged a building and car.
Among those injured was a 14-year-old child, who was subsequently hospitalized, while two other individuals received medical assistance following the attack.
These events follow a period of heightened aerial conflict. Russian officials reported that the previous night saw the largest-scale Ukrainian attack of the year, resulting in at least seven deaths.
During that weekend, five people were killed in the Rostov region, while a woman died in a separate attack on a civilian bus in Belgorod and an 83-year-old man was killed in the Moscow region.
A warehouse owned by the retailer Wildberries was also reportedly hit during the broader operation, which involved some 822 drones, with 600 targeted at Moscow.
Simultaneously, Ukrainian officials reported that two people were killed in Russian drone strikes overnight in the Sumy region, an area near the border that frequently faces attacks. Russian aerial activity has intensified recently, with the Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz stating that its facilities were targeted 13 times over the past week.
In other incidents on Saturday night, a man and a woman were killed in the Zaporizhzhia region after a private home was struck by a guided aerial bomb, and five additional people died in attacks across Ukraine.
Russian authorities claimed their strikes on Kyiv over the weekend targeted a FirePoint facility producing parts for Flamingo missiles and a factory manufacturing drone components. The bombardment also damaged a book market in the city’s Pochayna district, leaving books burnt on the ground.
President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that 13 Ukrainian regions have been attacked this week, with Russia launching over 1,550 attack drones, nearly 1,560 guided aerial bombs, and 62 missiles.
Since the full-scale invasion began in February 2022, Russia has maintained control over approximately one-fifth of Ukrainian territory, while Kyiv has increasingly utilized drone strikes to target locations deep within Russian borders. Both sides accuse each other of targeting civilians.
A 14-year-old child was among those injured, Alexander Shuvaev wrote on Telegram on Monday.
Firefighters at the scene of a strike on a book market in Kyiv on 16 August
