The key facts

  • In Graivoron, an FPV drone attacked a private house; a man sustained severe injuries and died at the scene, according to the regional operational headquarters.
  • The windows and roofs of the residential house and an outbuilding were damaged; the name and age of the deceased are not disclosed.
  • The same day, the headquarters reported two wounded in Belgorod and Novy Oskol; earlier, attacks on seven municipalities of the region were reported.

Civilian killed in Graivoron

The operational headquarters of the Belgorod Region reported via the Max messenger that in the city of Graivoron, a man was fatally injured when an FPV drone attacked a private house and died at the scene. This was reported by Gazeta.Ru and Life.ru citing the headquarters. The statement also expresses condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased. According to the headquarters, the windows and roofs of the house and an outbuilding were damaged. The name and age of the deceased are not disclosed; no other casualties in this incident have been reported.

Other attacks the same day

According to the operational headquarters, on the same day drones struck the village of Pristen in the Valuyki district and the village of Znamenka, where a car and a fence were damaged. Earlier the same day, the headquarters reported two wounded: in Belgorod, a man sustained multiple blind shrapnel wounds to the face in an attack on an apartment building, while in Novy Oskol, a victim with shrapnel wounds to the face, head and arms was taken to the Chernyanka central district hospital after a strike on a commercial building. Gazeta.Ru also noted that drone attacks on seven municipalities of the region had previously been reported.

Previous incidents in Graivoron

Life.ru recalls that the border town of Graivoron and nearby settlements have repeatedly come under attack, including by FPV drones. According to the regional operational headquarters, on October 29 a drone attacked a private house in Graivoron: a man sustained multiple shrapnel wounds and was hospitalized in serious condition, and the roof and second floor caught fire after the explosion. In addition, on October 24, according to the headquarters, an FPV drone attacked a man in the village of Zamositye in the Graivoron district — he died from his injuries; two more people were hurt in other attacks that day.