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By Elena Teslova
MOSCOW (AA) — At least 14 people were killed and 108 others injured in Ukraine's shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod, the administrative center of the region with the same name, the Emergency Ministry said on Saturday.
Two of the killed and 15 of the wounded are children, the ministry said in a statement.
In a separate statement, the Defense Ministry said Ukraine used two Olkha missiles with cassette munitions and Czech rocket launcher Vampire. The strikes targeted residential quarters, and 40 civilian targets were damaged, it added.
Russia has requested a meeting of the UN Security Council after the strikes.
Earlier, Belgorod region governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said Ukraine shelled the center of Belgorod, and confirmed damage to water supply of the region's administrative center.
Separately, the Defense Ministry had said 32 Ukrainian drones were either jammed or shot down overnight. "Air defense systems destroyed and intercepted 32 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles over the territories of the Bryansk, Orel, Kursk, and Moscow regions," it said in a statement.
Belgorod borders Ukraine’s Luhansk, Sumy and Kharkiv regions.