A drone attacked the Belgorod administration building in the city center. Photos of the damaged building are published by local telegram channels “Belgorod No. 1”, “BelPlus” and “112”.
The windows and doors in the administration were broken. “There are two victims: one woman received shrapnel wounds, the second received shell shock,” Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote in his Telegram channel.
Belgorod Mayor Valentin Demidov later clarified that two administration employees were hospitalized: one of them received shrapnel wounds to the head, chest and limbs and is in serious condition; the second is in a state of moderate severity.
Demidov spoke about two more victims. According to him, they received minor injuries.
Gladkov has been talking this morning about the shelling of the region by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. According to the latest data, there are two victims in the village of Golovino. Three people were wounded in Shebekino. In Belgorod, according to the governor, a drone crashed into the wall of a store — no one was injured; Four cars were damaged around the building.
Later, the head of the region reported that the drone also fell on the roof of a Belgorod shopping center near the station.
The Ministry of Defense reported on March 12 that air defense systems shot down at least 25 drones in the Kursk, Moscow, Leningrad, Belgorod, Bryansk, Tula and Oryol regions.
The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region wrote that drones attacked the Kstovo industrial zone. Telegram channels Baza and 112 claim that we are talking about the LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez plant. The mayor of Orel also spoke about the fall of drone debris on a “fuel and energy complex facility.”
The border areas of the Kursk and Belgorod regions came under artillery fire today — ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev claims that this is a joint operation of the legion < span class="mz-publish-hint" data-body="<p>Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the Russians are fighting. </p>" data-type="hint" data-slate-custom="{"data-body":"<p>Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the Russians are fighting. </p>","body": "<p>Formations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, in which the Russians are fighting. </p>",,"isCreated":false,,"migrationId":"1646998844495",,"html":null}">» Freedom of Russia», «Russian Volunteer Corps» (RDK) and «Siberian Battalion». The Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian army thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian units to break through into Russian territory.
Updated at 17:00. Added comment from the mayor of Belgorod and information about the drone falling on the roof of the shopping center.