Several drone strikes hit houses and an administrative building overnight in Russia’s Belgorod region, the target of a Ukrainian incursion, according to local authorities.
The attacks, which took place in the town of Graivoron, in the district of the same name, and in the village of Borissovka, caused no casualties or injuries, the governor of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, wrote on the Telegram platform.
“Two houses were attacked by drones in Graivoron” and burned, Gladkov said.
In the village of Borissovka, a drone attacked an administrative building, followed by a new attack on a house, damaging the roof of the structure, according to the same source.
The Belgorod region, in particular the Graivorona district, was the target of a raid by Ukrainian armed fighters on Monday, which injured eight people and prompted Russia to launch an “anti-terrorist operation.”
The Russian security services (FSB) introduced in the afternoon the “legal regime of the zone of anti-terrorist operations” in the region, giving the authorities greater powers to carry out armed operations, control civilians or evacuate populations.
This is the first time this has happened since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
“The search operation carried out by the Ministry of Defense and the police continues” this Tuesday in the Graivoron district, Gladkov said.
“The police are doing everything necessary,” said the governor, calling on the inhabitants who were taken from their homes so that they do not return for the moment.
Ukraine has denied organizing the armed incursion into the Belgorod region.
The operation was claimed on a Telegram channel that presents itself as belonging to the Freedom for Russia Legion, a group of Russians fighting on the Ukrainian side that had already claimed to be behind previous incursions into the region.
Source: TSF
