BELGOROD, January 1 About 200 cars were damaged as a result of the Ukrainian shelling of Belgorod on December 29 and 30, repairs will begin after an examination, said city mayor Valentin Demidov in the Telegram channel.
«At this moment, there is information about 196 cars damaged due to shelling. Of these, 30 were damaged on December 29 and 166 on December 30. Almost all the owners have been identified. Two more remain to be found,» the mayor wrote .
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Demidov added that experts are involved in assessing the damage. After the examination, it will be possible to begin restoration. According to him, 37 damaged cars are in a special parking lot.
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on Friday night Russian air defense systems destroyed 13 rockets over the territory of the Belgorod region. The governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, informed that as a result of a direct hit by a shell on a private house during a massive shelling of Belgorod, one person was killed and four were wounded.
On Saturday afternoon, the governor of the Belgorod region reported that the Ukrainian military had shelled the center of Belgorod. According to official data, 25 people were killed as a result of the APU strike, 5 of whom were children. A total of 109 people were injured. Of these, 45 are in hospitals in the regional center, and 25 in the federal center. Various destructions were detected in 37 apartment buildings, 453 apartments, three private households, and seven social facilities. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that air defense systems intercepted Vilkha missiles and most of the Vampire MLRS rockets; several rockets and cluster parts from the downed Vilkha missiles hit Belgorod. As noted in the military department, in the event of a direct hit by the Vilkha MLRS cluster munitions on Belgorod, and not their fragments, the losses among the civilian population would be disproportionately greater.