Ukraine keeps up air attacks on Russia's Kursk, regional governor says

7/8/2024 11:59

        Kyiv kept up air attacks on Russia's Kursk border region on Wednesday, with defence systems destroying at least five drones overnight, its acting governor said, a day after Moscow accused Ukraine of targeting the area with an armoured assault.
        
        The Russian defence ministry said it had sent reserves to help repel hundreds of Ukrainian fighters backed by tanks, in a ground incursion shaping as one the largest into Russian territory during the war now more than two years old.
        
        In posts on the Telegram messaging app, Alexei Smirnov, the acting governor of the southwestern Russian region, said the situation was "controllable." Ukraine launched several waves of drones, prompting at least a dozen air raid alerts over the past 24 hours, Smirnov's posts showed.
        
        Russian officials said, five people were killed, including two ambulance crew, with at least 20 wounded, among them six children, in the fighting that erupted on Tuesday.