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One local resident was killed and 14 others were injured in a nighttime drone attack on Belgorod, Belgorod Region Governor Alexander Shuvaev reported.
According to Shuvaev, 30 apartment buildings, 35 vehicles, four private houses, three administrative buildings, eight commercial properties and three social facilities were damaged in the city. Eight of the injured are in hospital, while six others will receive outpatient treatment.
Shuvaev said Belgorod Region had come under attack 154 times over the past 24 hours. He claimed that Russian air defences had shot down or suppressed 200 drones. Four people were killed and another 19 injured in attacks across the region during the same period.
According to Perm Krai Governor Dmitry Makhonin, an industrial facility in the north of the region sustained “minor damage” in an attack but continues to operate “as normal”. Five employees were injured, and their condition is described as satisfactory. Air defence units and mobile fire groups shot down 11 drones, he said.
The Ukrainian monitoring channel Exilenova+ reported that the target in Perm Krai was the AVISMA chemical and metallurgical plant in Berezniki.
According to the channel’s report, the MegaGRINN shopping and entertainment centre in Belgorod was hit overnight. The complex covers about 163,000 square metres and houses more than 200 shops, a supermarket, restaurants, a cinema and entertainment areas.
According to the Russian Defence Ministry, Russian air defences intercepted and destroyed 532 Ukrainian drones between 8 p.m. on October 24 and 8 a.m. on October 25. The ministry said the drones were downed over Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Voronezh, Tula, Oryol, Lipetsk, Kaluga, Ryazan, Rostov, Saratov, Samara, Penza, Volgograd and Ulyanovsk regions; the Moscow region; Perm Krai and Krasnodar Krai; Tatarstan, Adygea and Mari El; the occupied Crimean Peninsula; the Udmurt Republic; and the Sea of Azov.