Rescue workers from Rivne region assisting with the emergency response after a Russian drone strike. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

A Ukrainian drone strike on a village in Russia’s western Belgorod region killed one person and injured at least seven others on Sunday, according to Telegram news channel Ashes of Belgorod.

The drone struck a supermarket car park in the village of Nikolskoye, Ashes of Belgorod reported, adding that the victim had been a warrant officer in the Russian military.

However, in a post on his Telegram channel, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov made no mention of the fatality, saying only that five people had been injured, rather than the seven reported by independent media outlets.

Gladkov also reported several other settlements in the region coming under Ukrainian fire over the weekend, including the regional capital Belgorod, where he said falling debris had caused minor damage.

Elsewhere in Russia, two drones targeted a research institute in Chuvashia, in Russia’s Volga region, on Sunday. No casualties were reported, but the republic’s head, Oleg Nikolaev, said that operations at the site had been suspended as a precautionary measure.

Ukraine’s western Rivne region was also subjected to the heaviest Russian attack since the start of the war on Sunday, in which one person was injured and a fire broke out near an airbase close to the town of Dubno, according to local authorities.