Two people have been killed and five others wounded in Ukrainian drone attacks on Bryansk Region, western Russia, local governor Egor Kovalchuk has said.
A 30-year-old woman and a 41-year-old man lost their lives after a kamikaze-drone struck a private home in the settlement of Klimovo, not far from Russia’s border with Ukraine, Kovalchuk wrote in a post on Max on Saturday.
“A tragedy in the border area – civilians killed,” he said, expressing condolences to the relatives of the victims.
Four females and one male were injured by Kiev’s UAVs elsewhere in the region, including a 73-year-old woman in the village of Pogar and a 19-year-old boy in Voronok, he added.
Earlier in the day, Belgorod Region Governor Aleksandr Shuvayev said that he had received information from emergency services about a civilian being killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Schebekino District. The exact time it happened is not yet known, he added.
Four people were also wounded in Ukrainian UAV and artillery strikes across the region over the past 24 hours, Shuvayev said. Three of them are still hospitalized, according to the governor.
Kursk Region has also been extensively targeted by Ukrainian forces, with one man wounded in the village of Chernitsyno and another one in Lgov, Kursk Governor Aleksandr Khinshtein has said.
Bryansk, Belgorod, and Kursk regions, which all border Ukraine, have come under regular attacks since the escalation between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Saturday morning that a total of 433 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones were destroyed by air defenses in 19 Russian regions overnight.
Moscow has accused Ukraine of deliberately targeting residential areas and civilian infrastructure to compensate for setbacks on the battlefield where Russian forces continue to advance.
In response to Ukrainian terrorist attacks, Russia has intensified its long-range missile and drone campaign against Ukraine’s military facilities and infrastructure supporting Kiev’s war effort. The Defense Ministry in Moscow maintains that it never targets civilians.