“At about 10:15 Moscow time, 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 in a statement.

It is clarified that the Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed by air defense systems on duty over the territory of the Belgorod region.

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.