The military institution announced on its official Telegram channel that 40 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were shot down over Kursk, 12 over Oryol, 11 over Ryazan, eight over Nizhny Novgorod, seven over the Black Sea, six over the Republic of Crimea, two over Moscow, one over Kaluga, one over Belgorod, and one over Bryansk.

Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov informed that two civilians were killed and three more were wounded by a deliberate Ukrainian drone attack on a car in which five men were traveling on a stretch of the Graivoron-Ilyok-Penkovka highway.

The Belgorod Oblast, whose border with Ukraine stretches some 350 kilometers, has been the target of constant cross-border attacks since Russia launched the special military operation in eastern Ukraine in February 2022.

Other Russian territories bordering Ukraine, such as Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, and the Crimean peninsula, regularly report shelling, drone strikes, and other attacks from across the border, forcing the population to seek shelter elsewhere.

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