VORONEZH. March 20 (Interfax) - Air defense was activated on Wednesday to repel an air strike on Russia's Belgorod region and a neighboring area, the region's governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said.
"Our air defense system was activated earlier over Belgorod and the Belgorod district. According to preliminary information, one person was killed. The man was in his car when it was hit by shrapnel. He died at the scene from the wounds he sustained before the ambulance arrived," Gladkov wrote on Telegram on Wednesday.
Two other people were injured by shelling, Gladkov said. A 17-year-old girl suffered a closed head injury, and a male received shrapnel wounds in his arm. Ambulances took the injured to the Belgorod regional children's hospital and the Belgorod city hospital, respectively.