A drone was shot down over a village in the Belgorod region

In the Valuysky urban district of the Belgorod region, an air defense system (air defense) worked, a drone was shot down over the village of Dolgoye, informed Governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

“Our air defense system worked in the Valuysky urban district. A UAV was shot down over the village of Dolgoye. The operational services are clarifying the consequences on the ground,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

In a report on strikes in the region for June 24, Gladkov also said that in the Shebekinsky urban district, the villages of Belyanka and Novaya Tavolzhanka came under mortar fire, five mortar shells were fired at the Pankov farm, and three more at the village of Terezovka. No one was injured as a result of the shelling. In addition, in the city of Shebekino, a drone dropped an explosive device at an industrial enterprise, a small fire was quickly eliminated.

The Belgorod region is regularly shelled from the Ukrainian side, at the end of May the intensity of the attacks increased. On June 2, Governor Gladkov estimated the restoration of enterprises affected by shelling at 10 billion rubles. Deputy Prime Minister Victoria Abramchenko said that the region had applied to the Russian government for financial assistance to repair the damage caused by the shelling.

In the Belgorod region, a high (“yellow”) level of terrorist danger is indefinitely. Since October 19, 2022, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the “medium level of response” has been established in the region. On June 6, the press service of United Russia, citing Gladkov, reported that almost 60,000 people had been evacuated from the shelled territories.