Acting Governor of the Kursk Region of the Russian Federation Alexander Khinshtein announced the attack of drones in the Belovsky district.
“As a result of the attack of the Ukrainian drones in the village of Giria Belovsky District, two spouses were injured. The 51-year-old woman has fragmentation wounds of the abdomen, arms and legs, a 56-year-old man has multiple fragmentation chests, heads and backs,” Wrio head of the region wrote in a telegram channel on Saturday, March 8.
According to Khinshtein, now the victims are in the Kursk Regional Clinical Hospital, nothing threatens their lives.
“Doctors are doing everything possible to put people on their feet as quickly as possible. A civil car was damaged in the same village of Dronom, the driver, fortunately, was not injured!”, He said, calling for residents to refrain from trips to the border areas.
31 drone is intercepted over the regions of the Russian Federation at night
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported to neutralization on Saturday 31 drones over the Krasnodar Territory, the Bryansk, Leningrad and Yaroslavl regions.
“During the last night, the air defense systems were intercepted and destroyed by 31 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles: 26 UAVs – above the territory of the Krasnodar Territory, three UAVs – above the territory of the Bryansk region and one UAV – above the territories of the Leningrad and Yaroslavl regions,” follows from the department in the telegram channel.
The attacks of drones on the Russian regions began in 2022 against the backdrop of the “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine.
Kyiv did not officially confirm its involvement, but in August 2023, an adviser to the head of the office of the Ukrainian president Mikhail Podolyak said that the number of UAVs of UAVs in Russia “will increase.”
In early March 2023, President Vladimir Zelensky said that the whole world sees the results of Ukraine’s use of drones of its own production in strategic objects in Russia. “I think everyone sees that our drones work. And they work long -range. Our range is a real approach of security for everyone,” the head of the Ukrainian state of video showing after a massive attack of drones in the regions of the Russian Federation, including the Moscow region.
Zelensky emphasized that “Ukraine will apply the Russian state with return losses is quite fair.”
In May 2023, the drone exploded over the Senate Palace in the Kremlin, repeatedly UAVs entered the buildings of the Moscow City business center. The targets are also often become border Bryansk, Belgorod and Kursk regions and annexed Crimea.