MOSCOW, May 26. /TASS/. Russian air defenses shot down a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in the airspace over the Belgorod Region bordering on Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

"An attempt of the Kiev regime to carry out a terrorist attack with the use of an airplane-type UAV at about 8:00 a.m. Moscow time (5:00 GMT) against facilities on the Russian territory was thwarted," the ministry stated. "The Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was destroyed over the territory of the Belgorod Region by the air defense means on duty," the ministry stated.

Later a civilian was wounded in a village in Russia’s borderline Belgorod Region as a result of a drone attack by Ukrainian troops, the region’s governor, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said.

"A moving passenger car was attacked in the village of Bezymeno. The drone dropped a shrapnel munition wounding the driver. The man was taken to hospital in the city of Graivoron," he wrote on his Telegram channel, adding that the car was completely burnt down.

Apart from that, according to the governor, a kamikaze drone hit a window in a single-family house in the village of Novostroyevk-Pervaya. "Luckily, no one was hurt. The drone broke windows and damaged the facade and a gas boiler," he wrote. A passenger car was damaged in another drone attack, he added.