At least six people killed in Ukrainian missile attack on Russia’s Belgorod

At least six people have been killed and four others, including a 14-year-old, have been wounded in a Ukrainian missile strike on western Russia’s Belgorod region.

The Ukrainian attack on Monday hit the village of Koloskovo in the Valuysky district, acting Belgorod Governor Alexander Shuvaev said on the state-backed MAX platform. Shuvaev said a structure was “burned” and a vehicle damaged in the attack.

Koloskovo is about 15km (10 miles) from Ukraine’s northeastern border.

At the same time, Russian forces launched missile and drone attacks across Ukraine, killing at least four people and wounding 19.

At least two people were killed and four injured in a Russian attack on the southeastern region of Zaporizhia.

At least two people were killed and one person was wounded in Russian shelling on Sumy in northeastern Ukraine, emergency services said.

At least five people were injured in a Russian strike on central Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region while four were injured after two Russian guided-bomb attacks hit Izyum in the northeastern region of Kharkiv.

Five people were injured in Russian attacks on the southern region of Kherson.