MOSCOW, March 16. /TASS/. The Kiev regime is shelling Russia’s Belgorod Region in a bid to disrupt voting in the presidential election, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said.

"Today, they hit Belgorod five more times obviously to frustrate the voting, to intimidate people," she said at an event organized by the Russian Znanie Society.

Seven out of 21 districts of the Belgorod Region came under shelling from seven in the morning on March 15 to seven in the morning on March 16. Ukrainian troops used drones, artillery, and mortars to attack the region. Two civilians dies and 19 more were wounded in shelling attacks. More than 230 apartments in apartment blocks, around 60 single-family houses, ten social facilities, and 155 passenger cars were damaged.