BELGOROD, February 18. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military attacked populated areas in Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region with nearly 180 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and more than 35 munitions in the past 24 hours, the regional crisis response center reported.

"In the Belgorodsky district, the settlements of Dubovoye, Maisky, Malinovka, Oktyabrsky and Razumnoye, the villages of Bessonovka, Golovino, Dragunskoye, Krasnaya Niva, Krasny Oktyabr, Nechayevka, Novaya Nelidovka, Otradnoye, Petrovka, Pushkarnoye, Repnoye, Streletskoye, Tolokonnoye and Yasniye Zory, the farmsteads Krestovoye and Tserkovny came under a bombardment by six munitions and attacks by 39 drones, of which 23 were shot down and suppressed," the statement reads.

In the settlement of Maisky, three persons were injured in a drone attack on a commercial facility. Two men were taken to medical institutions in Belgorod. Doctors assess their condition as severe. The woman who was also injured in the drone attack was discharged for outpatient medical treatment. The Ukrainian attacks damaged a warehouse, equipment and a building on the premises of an enterprise, a social facility and a commercial site, two electricity transmission lines, an infrastructural facility and eight private homes, the crisis response center reported.