The Governor of the Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine shelled the city of Valuiki, according to preliminary information, one civilian was killed. He wrote about it at night in the Telegram channel.
There are victims, their number is not specified.
Gladkov explained that the air defense system worked at night, but there was destruction on the ground. Also, as a result of the shelling, a substation was damaged, and electricity was temporarily interrupted in the city. According to the governor, eight private residential buildings on Shkolnaya Street and three cars caught fire.
Social facilities were transferred to backup power sources, but later in the morning Gladkov reported that the supply of electricity to social institutions and residential buildings, except for Shkolnaya Street, had been restored.
The night before, Gladkov reported that the village of Nekhoteevka had been shelled near Belgorod. He clarified that after the impact, the customs terminal caught fire, the territory of the gas station was not affected.
Authorities of the Belgorod region. first of the war in Ukraine, shelling is reported. So, on September 12, Gladkov said that as a result of the shelling of the Logachevka border checkpoint, a citizen of Ukraine born in 1942 died, four more people were injured. According to him, three of the victims are Ukrainians). On September 8, the head of the region also said that two missiles were shot down over Belgorod, and the air defense system went off. On the morning of August 31, several explosions thundered in the region. At the same time, residents of the village of Severny, half a kilometer from Belgorod, found a fragment of an air defense missile in their yard. In addition, from the Belgorod region, the Russian military is launching missiles at Kharkov.