Russia’s war in Ukraine

At least three people were killed and three others were injured after a drone strike hit a car with civilians in the village of Pochaevo, in Russia’s Belgorod region, the regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Monday.

Gladkov blamed Ukrainian armed forces on the strike.

Gladkov said in a Telegram post that the people in the car at the moment of the strike were local construction workers.

Three men “died from their wounds as a result of the explosion” following the strike and another three people were hospitalized with shrapnel wounds, he said.

Earlier on Monday, the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod region “came under mortar fire from the Ukrainian armed forces,” Gladkov said.

Two children aged 10 and 11 were injured and taken to the local hospital as a result, according to Gladkov.

CNN cannot independently verify the casualties.