At night in the Russian city of Belgorod, a "series of loud sounds" was heard. Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported about this on the morning of July 3.
According to him, there are partial destructions of 11 apartment buildings on Mayakovsky, Michurin, Chumychov, Popov and Pavlova streets. At least 39 private residential buildings were also affected, five of them were completely destroyed.
Gladkov stated that there are three dead and four injured, including a 10-year-old child. Gladkov did not specify what exactly caused the "loud sounds", but wrote that the anti-aircraft defense was working.
Later, the head of Kursk oblast, Roman Starovoit, reported that two Ukrainian Stryzh drones were shot down by Russian air defense during the night on the approach to Kursk. According to him, there are no victims.
Later, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation stated that at night, Ukraine "deliberately hit the residential areas of Belgorod and Kursk with Tochka-U missiles”. Russian air defenses allegedly shot down all three missiles.