A Ukrainian strike killed a man in the Russian border region of Belgorod, authorities said on Wednesday (June 24, 2026).
Russia’s Defence Ministry said the country’s forces had destroyed more than 300 drones from Ukraine overnight, with the warring neighbours having stepped up strikes in recent weeks.
The man was killed when a drone exploded in the Veydelevsky district, the Operational Headquarters for the Belgorod Region wrote in a Telegram post.
A woman who sustained a shrapnel wound to the back was taken to hospital, it added.
“During the past night, air defence duty assets intercepted and destroyed 323 Ukrainian fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles across Russia,” the country’s Defence Ministry wrote on the state-run Max platform.
The attack came after a nighttime Russian drone strike killed a woman in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region.
U.S.-led talks on ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II have remained effectively frozen, with Washington’s attention diverted towards West Asia since launching strikes on Iran in late February.
Published – June 24, 2026 12:15 pm IST