Two civilians killed in Ukrainian shelling of Russian region
Ukraine’s armed forces shelled the village of Klimovo in Russia’s Bryansk Region on Tuesday using Multiple Launch Rocket Systems, killing two civilians, Governor Aleksander Bogomaz reported on his Telegram channel.
The official also stated that five people, including children, were injured in the attack, and that the shells damaged a school, several administrative buildings, and some houses. He added that the power supply in the village has been disrupted.
Bogomaz noted that emergency services are already working at the scene, and the injured are being provided with the necessary medical assistance.
In his initial Telegram post, the governor said a child had been killed in the attack, but he later issued an update saying that information turned out to be incorrect. According to the latest update, the Ukrainian shelling resulted in the death of a 20-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman.
Russia’s Defense Ministry also reported on Tuesday that at around 4pm local time, Ukrainian forces attempted to launch a terrorist attack using airplane-type unmanned aerial vehicles to strike objects on Russian territory.
However, Russian air-defense forces managed to successfully destroy the drone above the Bryansk region before it could reach its target, the ministry said.
Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Ukraine to the south and Belarus to the west, has repeatedly come under attack from Kiev’s forces and faced multiple incursion attempts by Ukrainian infiltration groups in recent months. In August alone, Russian officials reported three attempted incursions and several raids, the latest of which resulted in the injury of a civilian, a local farmer.
Other Russian regions bordering Ukraine have also been facing increased artillery and drone attacks, which have on multiple occasions resulted in the deaths of civilians, among them many children.
