2 people killed in attack on Russia's Belgorod region

MOSCOW

At least two people were killed and one person was injured Thursday in shelling by Ukrainian forces of Russia's Belgorod region.

Ukrainian troops shelled several districts in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, leading to casualties in the village of Nizhneye Berezovo, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram.

According to the governor, Ukraine's armed forces "struck civilians while they were planting potatoes in their gardens."

Gladkov said the shells were fired from Grad rocket launchers and some of them caused fires in several places.

Emergency medical services and law enforcement personnel are working at the sites of the incidents, he added.