“Ukrainian nationalists struck at peaceful, civilian targets,” he wrote on Telegram.

As a result of the shelling, households and a monument to those who died during the Great Patriotic War, as well as a store building, were damaged.

The power supply has been partially disrupted in the village, emergency and operational services are already working there.

President Vladimir Putin previously instructed the Cabinet of Ministers and executive authorities of the Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk and Rostov regions to decide how to restore housing destroyed by the shelling of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.