“As a result of the actions of the Ukrainian security forces, two people went missing, including one child,” the report says.

Also reported damage to 39 private and 11 apartment buildings.

According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, at night Kyiv launched a deliberate strike with Tochka-U missiles with cluster munitions and Tu-143 drones on residential areas of Belgorod and Kursk.

The missile attack was purposefully planned and carried out against the civilian population of the cities, the department stressed.

Air defense forces shot down all three missiles fired at Belgorod, fragments of one of them fell on a residential building in the city.