Russian forces thwart Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border
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Russian forces have thwarted a Ukrainian attempt to penetrate the border in Russia’s Kursk region, the interim governor of the region said on Tuesday.
Alexei Smirnov said that soldiers and Federal Security Service border forces had repelled a Ukrainian attack in the region.
The MASH Telegram channel, which has contacts in Russian state security, said that about 100 Ukrainian fighters had tried to enter Russia in the Sudzha area of the Kursk region.
Ukrainian shelling wounded five people, including three children, in Russia’s Kursk region, Smirnov said earlier.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s air defence shot down two Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, two cruise Kh-59 cruise missiles and 15 attack drones that Russia launched overnight, it said on Tuesday on the Telegram messaging app.
Several explosions rang out in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv late on Monday, Reuters witnesses said, after an air raid siren sounded, but authorities said air defence units had intercepted incoming missiles.
Russia had launched in total four Iskander-M or KN-23 ballistic missiles, the Ukraine air force said, without saying what happened to the two missiles that were not destroyed.
Ruslan Kravchenko, Kyiv regional governor, reported no direct hits to residential or critical infrastructure.
The debris damaged windows in an apartment building, an office building and two gas stations in the region, he said.
