MOSCOW. March 11 (Interfax) - Four people died in a Ukrainian strike on the Dobrynya shopping center in Russia's Kursk region, the region's acting Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.
"The number of fatalities as a result of the strike on the shopping center in the Belovsky district has risen to four. The victims are two women, born in 1959 and 1988, respectively, a 39-year-old man and an 18-year-old man," Khinshtein said on his Telegram channel.
Russian Investigative Committee spokesperson Svetlana Petrenko, for his part, said the committee opened a criminal case on a count of a terrorist attack targeting the civilian population of the Kursk region.
According to investigators, on March 10, the Ukrainian Armed Forces intentionally struck a grocery store in the Kursk region's Belaya village killing and injuring civilians.
"All representatives of Ukrainian armed units involved in the crime will be identified and prosecuted during the preliminary investigation," Petrenko said.