Belgorod Communist Party Official Killed in Ukrainian Drone Strike
Alexander Logvinov, head of the Communist Party's Belgorod city branch, was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack on a commercial facility, according to Russian officials.
A local Communist Party official in the southwestern Russian city of Belgorod was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack earlier this week, party officials said. Alexander Logvinov, who led the Communist Party’s Belgorod city branch, died on Tuesday during what the party described as a "terrorist attack by Ukrainian armed forces against civilian infrastructure." State Duma lawmaker Sergei Gavrilov confirmed that Logvinov was killed inside his car during an attack on a "commercial facility." "A drone struck Alexander’s car and he died at the scene from his injuries," Gavrilov wrote on Telegram. Regional emergency services reported Tuesday that an unidentified civilian died after a vehicle caught fire following an explosion. The Communist Party’s regional branch said a farewell ceremony for Logvinov would take place Thursday morning. Belgorod is located about 35 kilometers (21.5 miles) north of the border with Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region. On Thursday, Gavrilov also stated that 541 civilians have been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in the Belgorod region since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
