At least two people were killed and six others were injured in shelling in Russia’s Belgorod region on Friday, the governor there said.
Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a Telegram post that the people killed were in the yards of their homes when the attack came. Two children were among those injured, he said, adding that they were hurt by shrapnel.
Gladkov said that the two injured children were “a 13-year-old boy [who] suffered a closed fracture of the left shoulder and an 11-year-old girl [who] sustained shrapnel wounds to the left eye.”
The Belgorod region, which is located near the border with Ukraine, has seen intensified violence in the last several days, the governor previously said.
“A direct hit from a shell set an outbuilding and a garage in two private residences on fire” and there is damage to four more houses in the area, according to Gladkov.