Ukraine launches over 70 drones at Russia’s Belgorod Region in past 24 hours

BELGOROD, November 19. /TASS/. Ukrainian armed forces have launched 74 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and 18 projectiles at Belgorod Region in the last 24 hours, injuring three civilians, Vyacheslav Gladkov, the region’s governor, reported on his Telegram channel.
“In the Belgorod district, five munitions in two rounds of shelling and 21 UAVs, 16 of which were intercepted by air defense systems, were launched at the settlements of Dubovoye, Malinovka, Oktyabrsky, Belovskoye, Blizhneye, Blizhnyaya Igumenka, Krutoy Log, Naumovka, Nikolskoye, Orlovka, Petrovka, Repnoye, Tavrovo, Cheremoshnoye, and Schetinovka. The drone attacks injured two civilians,” he wrote.
The Ukrainian armed forces launched 11 UAVs at four settlements in the Krasnoyaruzhsky district, injuring a driver in an attack on a car. The vehicle was destroyed by fire. Additionally, five private homes, a commercial facility, and three cars were damaged.
A total of five projectiles and 18 drones were dispatched at the Shebekinsky district, damaging 11 private homes, a social facility, three passenger cars, a truck, the road, as well as an enterprise’s administrative building, storage facility, workshop, and equipment. At night, an explosive device deployed by a UAV destroyed a residential house in the settlement of Voznesenovka. The Borisovsky district was attacked by six drones. A private home, an outbuilding, and two cars were damaged. Air defenses downed eight UAVs in the skies over Belgorod and the Volokonovsky district, with no casualties or damage reported. Eight munitions and 10 drones were launched at the Grayvoronsky and Gubkinsky districts. A car caught fire due to falling debris in the Gubkinsky district.