A pregnant woman died on Saturday during a Ukrainian attack on the Russian border region of Belgorod, regional governor Viacheslav Gladkov reported on Telegram.
The incident occurred during the umpteenth attack against the Shevekinsk district, the one hardest hit by enemy artillery attacks.
The shrapnel from the projectile hit a pregnant woman in the street, who died in the hospital, as did the child she was carrying, despite the efforts of the doctors, he explained.
In addition, three other people were injured to varying degrees, one of them in the leg.
Last morning, Russian anti-aircraft defenses shot down fifty enemy drones in eight Russian regions, including the one surrounding the capital, Moscow, according to the Ministry of Defense.
Half of those drones targeted Belgorod, which has more than 500 kilometers of border with Ukraine and where two people died.
Since the first year of war, Ukraine has managed to hit different military and energy targets in the annexed Crimean peninsula, other occupied territories and the regions of the European part of Russia with aerial and naval drones of its own production.
With the attacks and raids on Belgorod, kyiv is trying to force Moscow to dedicate part of its military forces to protecting its border.
In response, the Kremlin is considering creating a security strip in the northeastern Ukrainian region of Kharkiv in order to prevent enemy artillery attacks.
