Moscow: One person has been killed and two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod region, which borders Ukraine, the regional governor said Thursday.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram that “the town of Shebekino was targeted by Ukrainian forces” and “unfortunately, one person was killed.”
Two other people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, he said, while the airstrikes also damaged an administrative building.
Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday it had shot down a drone over the Belgorod region overnight.
Two more drones were shot down over the Bryansk region, which also borders Ukraine, and three others were neutralized over annexed Crimea, the ministry said in a Telegram statement.
The Belgorod region has come under heavy fire, and earlier this month residents were evacuated from several border villages.
On Monday authorities in Belgorod said six civilians had been killed in attacks.
Earlier this month, Kyiv’s troops launched a major counter-offensive into the neighboring Kursk region, two and a half years after the start of the conflict.
One killed, two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod
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One killed, two injured in strikes on Russia’s Belgorod
- Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday it had shot down a drone over the Belgorod region overnight
Austria avalanches kill two: police
- A 21-year-old Slovak was skiing off-piste “without avalanche safety equipment“
- A 41-year-old Austrian was “swept away by the avalanche and completely buried“
VIENNA: Two people were killed in avalanches in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, bringing to seven the number of people killed in the country since Friday after heavy snowfall.
A 21-year-old Slovak was skiing off-piste “without avalanche safety equipment” when a “slab of snow broke off above him,” and killed him instantly, police in Styria province said.
Elsewhere in the Tyrol region, a 41-year-old Austrian was “swept away by the avalanche and completely buried,” regional police said on their website. The man later died in hospital after being rescued.
Experts had urged skiers to avoid off-piste slopes after five people — four in Tyrol and one in Vorarlberg — were killed Friday in avalanches triggered by a major snowstorm.
Twenty-four people have been killed this winter season in avalanches in Austria, a country popular for winter sports, according to an updated toll released Saturday.
Up to 40 centimeters (16 inches) of snow fell on the Alpine nation since Thursday, causing power outages and transport chaos.
A man was also crushed to death Friday by a snow plow that fell down a flight of stairs.
