MOSCOW, January 3. /TASS/. Russian air defenses have shot down six Tochka-U missiles and six Olkha missiles over the Belgorod Region, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

"This morning, on January 3, another attempt by the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack on facilities on the territory of the Russian Federation using rockets of the Olkha multiple launch rocket system and the Tochka-U missile launcher was foiled. Six missiles of the Tochka-U missile launcher and six rockets of the Olkha MLRS were destroyed over the Belgorod Region," the ministry said in a statement.