Russian air defense systems destroyed a Ukrainian drone over the Belgorod region. “An attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using an aircraft-type UAV on targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was stopped,” the department said.

Earlier, the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, reported that a resident of the village of Goncharovka, Sudzhansky district, who was injured during shelling by Ukrainian troops, died in the hospital.