<p class="content-excerpt">'Four American 'HARM' anti-radar missiles were shot down in the airspace over the Belgorod region'</p> <div class="components"> <p>Moscow said Monday that its air defense systems shot down four U.S.-made missiles over a southern Russian region bordering Ukraine, in one of its first such claims in nearly 10 months of fighting.&nbsp;</p> <p>"Four American 'HARM' anti-radar missiles were shot down in the airspace over the Belgorod region," Russia's defense ministry said in a statement on social media, referring to a region that it says is regularly hit by Ukrainian strikes.</p> <div class="taboola-wrapper"> <div class=" trc_related_container trc_spotlight_widget trc_elastic trc_elastic_ab_mid-article-thumbnails_abp-mode "></div> </div> <p>Belgorod is located 25 miles from the border with the neighboring country and has been subjected to shelling and mysterious explosions since the beginning of Moscow's invasion.&nbsp;</p> <p>Earlier on Monday morning, the Ukrainian capital of&nbsp;<a class="link" title="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/1671438458-ukraine-officials-say-kyiv-targeted-by-iranian-kamikaze-drones" href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/1671438458-ukraine-officials-say-kyiv-targeted-by-iranian-kamikaze-drones" _mce_href="https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/ukraine-conflict/1671438458-ukraine-officials-say-kyiv-targeted-by-iranian-kamikaze-drones">Kyiv was targeted</a>&nbsp;by a new wave of Russian attacks using Iranian-made kamikaze drones, according to city officials.</p> <p>"During the air alert, 23 enemy UAVs were recorded in the sky above the capital. Air defense destroyed 18 drones," the Kyiv city military administration said on social media.</p> </div>