The key facts

  • According to Regional Duma speaker Yury Klepikov, more than 2,000 Ukrainian Armed Forces attacks on the Belgorod Region were recorded in a week
  • At least 40 civilians were injured, and four more sustained injuries incompatible with life
  • The operational headquarters reported drone strikes on a passenger car in Shebekino and on a resident of the village of Dubovoye

More than 2,000 attacks in a week

Chairman of the Belgorod Regional Duma Yury Klepikov said in his Telegram channel, that over the past week Ukrainian forces carried out more than 2,000 attack attempts against the region. According to him, at least 40 civilians were injured as a result, and four more people sustained injuries incompatible with life. The deputy expressed condolences to the relatives of the deceased and wished a speedy recovery to the wounded.

Individual incidents

Data on specific episodes is provided by the region's operational headquarters citing Gazeta.Ru. On November 1, it reported that a Ukrainian drone attacked a passenger car in Shebekino: a man with shrapnel wounds was taken to hospital, and the car was damaged. A day earlier, a drone exploded in the village of Dubovoye near Belgorod — one civilian sustained non-penetrating wounds to the chest, lower limbs, shoulder and forearm and was hospitalized in Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod. Earlier, there were reports of a drone attack on agricultural machinery in the region.

What is known and what remains unclear

The figures cited and the details of the incidents come from regional authorities and are based on reports from a single outlet; there is no independent confirmation of the number of attacks or casualties in available publications. It is also not disclosed how exactly the 'attack attempts' were counted — whether downed drones or those that failed to reach their targets are included in this tally. Lists of the injured and final data on the dead have not yet been published.