Thirteen people have already died in the shelling of an apartment block in the southern Russian city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine, reported TASS, quoted by BTA, citing the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations.
The building partially collapsed after, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, it was hit by a Ukrainian missile. The previous figures of the Russian authorities were for eight dead.
"In Belgorod, the rescuers pulled out the body of the 13th person who died from under the rubble,", the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations informed TASS.
In the meantime, the tenth missile threat of the day was canceled in the city, he wrote on his channel in "Telegram". the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov.
He specified that the warning was announced at 10:21 p.m. (Bulgarian time) and remained in effect for about 10 minutes.
Belgorod, which lies across the border from Kharkiv, has been a frequent target of Ukrainian shelling since Russia's full-scale invasion of the neighboring country more than two years ago.