BELGOROD, February 24. /TASS/. The Ukrainian armed forces attacked settlements in Russia’s bordering Belgorod Region with more than 170 drones and fired over ten munitions in the past 24 hours. Nine civilians were wounded, the region’s Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported on Telegram.

"In the Belgorod District, the Oktyabrsky and Razumnoye villages, the Belomestnoye, Veselaya Lopan, Nikolskoye, Novaya Derevnya, Novaya Nelidovka, Otradnoye, Staraya Nelidovka, Tavrovo, Chaiki, and Yasnye Zori settlements were attacked by 25 drones, 19 of which were suppressed and shot down. <...> In Tavrovo village, a man was wounded as a result of a drone detonation. The man did not require hospitalization and was released for outpatient treatment," he wrote, adding that a private home, two commercial facilities, and an infrastructure facility were also damaged.

The Ukrainian armed forces launched 12 drones on the Borisovsky district; a man was wounded in the attack. He was taken to Belgorod City Hospital No. 2, and then released for outpatient treatment. Eleven private houses and an enterprise were also damaged, and an infrastructure facility caught fire, which has been extinguished. The Valuysky, Novooskolsky, Chernyansky, and Starooskolsky districts were attacked with 27 drones, with no casualties or damage reported. The Ukrainian armed forces launched one FPV drone on the Volokonovsky district, damaging a private home.