Two people were killed and several others wounded following Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian border regions, local authorities said on Wednesday, January 14th. The incidents were reported in the Rostov and Belgorod regions, both of which lie close to the Ukrainian border.
In the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, a UAV strike caused a fire in a residential building, according to regional governor Yuri Slyusar. Emergency services later discovered the body of a man in the burned remains of one of the apartments.
Elsewhere in the Rostov region, additional drone strikes sparked fires in several industrial areas. Four people were injured in those incidents—including a four-year-old child—local officials said.
In Russia’s Belgorod region—which has repeatedly come under cross-border attack—a woman was killed and a man wounded when a UAV struck a vehicle, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a statement posted on Telegram. The region has been regularly targeted by drone strikes and was affected by a large-scale power outage earlier this week.
The pattern of repeated UAV incursions causing civilian casualties is almost inevitable, given Ukraine’s stated ambition of becoming a European drone production hub.
