A Russian officer died in an explosion when he was relaxing at home and mowing his lawn near Ukraine’s border.
On Sunday, a man named Alexei Chernykh, who works as a deputy chief in a local anti-corruption police department, was allegedly exploded in the village of Schetinovka.
The village is often attacked by drones because Ukraine has increased its attacks across the border.
A channel called Baza on Telegram said that a drone dropped a bomb on Chernykh’s property.
According to the Telegram channel, a drone from Ukraine dropped ammunition in Shchetynovka. Alexey was not working that day and was cutting his grass. Sadly, he lost his life in the accident.
Based on his social media, Chernykh was attacked right before his 40th birthday, which he was supposed to celebrate today.
The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, believes that Ukraine was responsible for a drone attack that he claims caused the death of an innocent person.
Gladkov said that they made a bomb drop from a flying robot and it hit a regular person who was cutting the grass near his vacation house.
He said that the person died from small pieces of metal hurting their body, but he didn’t say who it was.
If Chernykh’s death is confirmed, he would be the most recent important Russian official to die since Vladimir Putin started the attack on Ukraine.
Russian sources have said that around six generals, including four Major Generals and two Lieutenant Generals, have been killed since February 2022. However, Ukraine says that the real number is 15.
Last month, a Ukrainian missile attack resulted in the death of General Oleg Tsokov.
He was punished by both the UK and the EU for his involvement in the war against Ukraine.
Recently, Ukraine has launched a series of attacks on Russia. This includes an attack on the Kremlin in May and multiple drone attacks on civilian areas in Moscow.
Today, Putin had a very bad night because four military planes at a Russian airport were damaged in a big drone attack, which seems to be the largest one since the war in Ukraine started.
Some news reports say that around 10 to 20 drones attacked an airbase in the Pskov region, which is close to Estonia and Latvia, right before midnight on Tuesday.
Pictures on social media display a big dark cloud of smoke coming from the location, with flames at the bottom giving it an orange glow.