Attacks on the borderline Russian region of Kursk where a Ukrainian infiltration attempt was registered yesterday continue.

 

The number of civilian casualties has increased to five, while as many as 28 people have been injured, TASS reports. Over the past 24 hours, air raid sirens repeatedly rang out in the region. Four unmanned aerial vehicles were downed in the skies over the Kursk Region last night. Also, two Ukrainian rockets were shot down, acting governor Alexey Smirnov said. 

 

Infiltration attempts by Ukrainian troops toward the Sudzha and Korenevo districts were thwarted, Kursk’s acting Governor Aleksey Smirnov said on Tuesday. As of August 6, as many as 16 Ukrainian armored vehicles were destroyed as Russian artillery and army aviation inflicted fire damage on the enemy, using combat drones, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.