{"id":5679,"date":"2026-05-01T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/?p=5679"},"modified":"2026-05-15T19:38:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:38:53","slug":"ukrainian-strike-kills-two-teenagers-in-russian-region-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/ukrainian-strike-kills-two-teenagers-in-russian-region-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian strike kills two teenagers in Russian region \u2013 governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The drone deliberately targeted the motorcycle the victims were riding, Vyacheslav Gladkov has said<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two teenagers have been killed in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia\u2019s Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were aged 18 and 15, the governor of Belgorod Region wrote in a post on his Telegram channel, adding that the drone deliberately targeted the motorcycle they were riding in the village of Volchya Aleksandrovka in Volokonovsky District. He added that the two died at the scene from their injuries and offered condolences to their families, writing: <em>\u201cThis is a terrible loss for all of us.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Belgorod and other Russian regions bordering Ukraine have repeatedly been targeted by drone strikes during the ongoing conflict. Moscow has accused Kiev of <em>\u201cterrorism\u201d<\/em> and of deliberately targeting civilians and critical infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The drone which took the boys\u2019 lives was just one of dozens Kiev has used to target Belgorod Region this week. On Wednesday, three women were killed when a drone struck a passenger bus in Voznesenovka. Eight others were injured, two of them seriously.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n        <span><strong>Read more<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure>\n            <img src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" alt=\"Smoke rising over Tuapse, Russia, following Ukrainian drone strikes, on 21 April, 2026.\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/69f0af0a85f5400c111e24cc.jpg\"><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/russia\/639210-ukraine-attacks-refinery-global-oil-suply\/\">Kiev\u2019s attacks on Russian refinery cutting global oil supply \u2013 Kremlin<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A day earlier, a man was killed in the same village when a drone hit a car. In a separate incident, a married couple were killed when a drone struck their vehicle in the village of Bobrava in Rakityansky district. Their 16-year-old son was injured and suffered blast trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Russian officials have described the aerial incursions as desperate <em>\u201cterrorist attacks\u201d<\/em> meant to compensate for the setbacks Kiev\u2019s military has been suffering on the battlefield.<\/p>\n<p>Moscow has retaliated with a long-range strike campaign of its own, targeting dual-use infrastructure, including power grid facilities and military sites in Ukraine with missiles and drones. Russia maintains that it never targets purely civilian sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drone deliberately targeted the motorcycle the victims were riding, Vyacheslav Gladkov has said Two teenagers have been killed in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5682,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5679\/revisions\/5682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/youtubexyoutube.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}