Roman Starovoit, governor of Russia’s Kursk region, said two Ukrainian drones attacked the town of Kurchatov, which houses a nuclear power plant, early Friday morning.
He wrote on the Telegram app that the emergency services are assessing the damage to an office building and a residential one as a result of the attack.
Starovoit did not indicate any damage to the Kursk nuclear power plant or give details of the two targeted buildings.
In the context, Russia thwarted, on Friday, a new night attack with a march in the Moscow region, according to the mayor of the capital, without mentioning any casualties or damage.
And Sergey Sobyanin announced via Telegram that “the air defense forces near Lyubertsy (the eastern suburbs of Moscow) thwarted a new attempt to direct a march” to Moscow.
He added, “No injuries or damages were recorded, according to preliminary information,” noting that emergency equipment was deployed at the site.
In recent weeks, attacks by drones have increased against Russian lands and Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014, targeting especially the Russian capital, as part of the counterattack launched by Kiev since early June.
Russia announced the destruction of a Ukrainian march Thursday in the Moscow region, in an attack that left no victims, according to Sobyanin.
A march was also shot down in the Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, without causing casualties or damage, according to what Governor Alexander Bogomaz reported late Thursday evening via Telegram.
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2023-09-01 07:16:31
