Russia ’s Belgorod region is restoring electricity and hot water after Ukrainian missile strikes caused widespread outages and injured at least three civilians, the governor said on Monday.

Vyacheslav Gladkov said Ukraine had targeted the region’s infrastructure, forcing certain facilities to switch to backup power generators and had twice struck the regional capital – Belgorod – with six warheads in total.

Unverified social media footage showed what looked like a powerful missile attack on a power station in Belgorod, with a series of loud explosions followed by smoke rising into the sky.

Reuters could not verify the footage, and there was no immediate comment from Ukraine, whose own power infrastructure comes under regular attack from Russia.

Gladkov said Kyiv’s forces had shelled

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