A five-year-old girl was injured in an attack by a Ukrainian UAV in the Belgorod region

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) attacked a private house in the Yekaterinovka village of the Volokonovsky district of the Belgorod region, as a result of which a child was injured. This was announced on December 14 by the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov.

"An APU fiber-optic drone attacked a private house. A large family of thirteen people lived there. A child was injured," he wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to Gladkov, as a result of the impact, a five-year-old girl received multiple shrapnel wounds to her head, arms and legs. The child was taken by an ambulance team to Valuyskaya Central District Hospital, where she is receiving all the necessary assistance.

According to the governor, a fire broke out in the house where a family of 13 people lived, which was eliminated by firefighters. The roof and glazing of the building were also damaged. The family is temporarily housed in a boarding house.

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On the same day, the Governor of the Zaporizhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, reported that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had shelled a house in the Mikhailovsky municipal district of the Zaporizhia region, and a private house had been damaged. In addition, one person was killed in the attack.

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