3 Killed in Drone Attacks in Russia's Belgorod Region

Ukrainian drone strikes in the Belgorod region of Russia resulted in three deaths and multiple injuries on Tuesday, according to local officials.

One man was killed in an attack on a commercial site in the village of Novosadovyi near the city of Belgorod. Another victim was hospitalized. A man's body was found at the scene of a strike on a business in the village of Belyanka, just across the border from Ukraine, where nine people had been injured in an earlier attack. Belyanka is home to a poultry and egg production company of the same name, part of the Leto Group.

In the village of Romashovka, further south and closer to the occupied Luhansk region in eastern Ukraine, a drone struck a vehicle, killing a man.

Earlier Tuesday morning, 19 passengers on an intercity bus were injured in the town of Shebekino, also near the Ukrainian border.

Acting Belgorod Region Governor Alexander Shuvayev said over the weekend that the past two months accounted for more than half of the 20,800 Ukrainian drone attacks intercepted by Russian air defenses in 2026. He described the attacks as "chaotic," targeting residential buildings, civilian infrastructure, commercial sites, and public spaces. "There's no military logic in these strikes at all. The enemy's goal is to sow panic, create tension and hinder the work of emergency and public utilities services," Shuvayev wrote on Telegram.