LUGANSK, February 3. /TASS/. The Ukrainian military attacked populated areas in Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region with record 150 unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in one day last week, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik told TASS.

"The Belgorod Region remains the area most frequently attacked by Ukrainian drones. Late last week, there was registered a record number of drones since the beginning of this year that attacked civilian facilities in the region: at least 150 UAVs in one day. <…> Drone operators of Ukrainian armed formations purposefully carried out attacks against civilians. Over the past seven days, 27 people suffered in the attacks in that region and four of them died," the envoy said.

The Ukrainian military most frequently attacked the Shebekinsky, Belgorodsky, Krasnoyaruzhsky, Valuisky, Volokonovsky and Graivoronsky districts of the Belgorod Region, Miroshnik specified.

The envoy told TASS earlier that 12 Russian civilians, including a six-year-old child died in the Ukrainian army’s attacks over the week and more than 60 people were injured.