MOSCOW - Four people were killed in a Ukrainian shelling attack on a shopping center in the village of Belaya in Russia's Kursk Oblast, the region's acting governor said Monday.

"The death toll from the shelling of a shopping center in the Belovsky district has risen to four. Two women (born in 1959 and 1988), a 39-year-old man and an 18-year-old boy were killed," Khinshtein said on the messaging app Telegram.

According to the governor, Ukrainian forces targeted the Dobrynya shopping center in Belaya on Monday evening.

Earlier reports put the death toll at three, with nine others injured, including four teenagers.