Russian defence ministry says it downed three drones near border as Ukrainian shelling kills 1

Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory have picked up in recent weeks.

A Ukrainian soldier shoots from his position, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in a location given as near Bakhmut, Donetsk Region, Ukraine, in this screengrab obtained from a video released September 2, 2023. (Photo/3rd Assault Brigade/Ukrainian Armed Forces Press Service/ via REUTERS)

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The Russian Defence Ministry said on Saturday that it had brought down three Ukrainian drones over the Belgorod region, while the regional governor said that one man had been killed in a Ukrainian rocket strike on a village close to the border.

Separately, the governors of the nearby frontier regions of Bryansk and Kursk said a string of border villages had come under fire from Ukraine, and a woman had been wounded in Kursk region.

Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory have picked up in recent weeks, with dozens of drones striking Russia at once on some days, reaching as far as the western city of Pskov, 400 miles (600 km) from Ukraine.

Russian-installed authorities in the Moscow-controlled part of Ukraine’s Kherson region also said on Saturday that Kyiv struck the village of Maslivka in a drone strike, wounding a civilian.

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