The head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that an air defense system is operating over Belgorod and the Belgorod region. RIA Novosti writes that nine loud explosions were heard in Belgorod. Edition Mash reported 12 explosions.
According to the RIA Novosti reporter, the windows of the houses in the center of the city were shaking and the alarms in the cars were going off.
Baza Telegram channel wrote that windows in some buildings were broken and many cars were damaged.
“Our air defense system worked over Belgorod and the Belgorod region. “There are consequences on the field,” the governor said.
Pieces fell on a car in the village of Sevryukovo, Belgorod region. According to the Readovka Telegram channel, there were two people in it, they were not injured.
In the Luch micro-region, the windows of some of the four apartment buildings were broken. According to preliminary data, there are various damages in 14 houses in the private sector. The district head said nine cars were also damaged.
“All emergency services are in place. Our door-to-door tour continues in the region,” he said.
A poultry farm in the Belgorod region came under fire. According to the news of the Zhest Belgorod Telegram channel, the building of the fourth building of the Yasnye Zori chicken farm in the village of the same name in the Belgorod region was damaged.
Authorities reported one dead and one injured.
“Unfortunately, there is 1 dead and 1 injured. There is damage to the chicken farm. I went there, ”said Governor Gladkov.
According to the head of the district, the man came from Tambov to the Belgorod region and worked for a contractor in the construction of a workshop for a poultry farm.
Kommersant states that according to the official reports of the authorities, the deceased is the 24th civilian to have died in the Belgorod region as a result of the Ukrainian bombardment since the beginning of the military operation.
The Zhest Belgorod Telegram channel writes that a building and several machines of special equipment were damaged in the poultry farm.
Gladkov said that 8 people were injured as a result of the bomb attack on the city and the region, 7 of them in hospital and one person in intensive care. “Another victim refused hospitalization and was sent for outpatient treatment,” Gladkov said.
According to him, the condition of the four victims is rated as moderate.
bombardment warning
According to the Belgorod Telegraph channel No. 1, residents of the city for the first time received SMS messages from the RSChS about the bombing with recommendations to go down to the basement and find shelter.
Reports started coming in around 13:40 (that is, after the first media coverage of the bombing). According to the residents of the neighborhood quoted by the MK publication, this is the first time they have received such messages.
They also received messages that the bombardment was over.
Previously, such warnings came only to residents of border settlements.
The last time that air defense systems worked in the sky over Belgorod was reported on 1 December. Villages in the Shebekinsky district and the Valuysky district were bombed that day.
On December 16, the district governor reported that the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Shebekinsky urban district was bombed. The ‘yellow’ terrorist threat level in the region has been extended until December 21. There is also a ban on firing, firing and saluting fireworks in the area. Russian areas on the border are regularly bombed. In this regard, the “yellow” level of terrorist threat operates in the Crimea, as well as in the Bryansk and Kursk regions.