A UAV strike has reportedly destroyed a fuel station in the city of Belgorod
A woman has been killed and four other people injured in a Ukrainian drone strike targeting a fuel station in the Russian city of Belgorod, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Tuesday.
In a statement posted on his Telegram channel, Gladkov said emergency services responded quickly to the attack, which sparked a fire and caused the fuel station building to collapse.
“Rescuers have recovered the body of a woman from under the rubble,” the governor said, adding that “there is a threat of a second drone strike.”
Three other women and one man were hospitalized with moderate injuries.
Gladkov said emergency services and local self-defense units were working at the scene and were clearing the debris.
Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said more than 50 rescuers and 23 units of equipment had been deployed to the site.
More than 100 drones were destroyed over Russian regions overnight on Tuesday, including 20 over Belgorod Region, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. Debris from one drone fell in the regional capital, injuring an eight-year-old boy. The child suffered blast and barotrauma injuries and was taken to the hospital by his grandmother.
Ukraine has significantly intensified its drone raids on civilian infrastructure in Moscow and other Russian regions since mid-May, when a meeting of negotiators from the two countries took place in Istanbul, marking the first direct talks between Kiev and Moscow since 2022. The attacks peaked during the final week of May, when 2,300 UAVs were shot down, according to the Russian MOD.
