A man was injured when the AFU dropped an explosive device on a car in Kursk region

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in Kursk Region have dropped an explosive device on a car, resulting in the injury of a civilian. This was reported on Monday, February 3, by Alexander Khinshtein, acting governor of the region.

"Yesterday, on a stretch of highway between the villages of Giryi and Ozerki (Belovsky district), an AFU drone dropped an explosive device on a civilian car where two men were driving. One of them, a resident of Sujan district, born in 1986, received moderate shrapnel wounds and a closed head injury," - stated in the message of the governor in Telegram-channel.

It is specified that the wounded was hospitalized in a medical institution, where he is under constant observation of doctors, his life is not threatened.

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