Ukrainian Army Fires Rockets at Kursk Region Town, Governor Says – The Moscow Times
Authorities in southwestern Russia’s Kursk region said Friday afternoon that Ukraine launched a missile attack on a town near the Ukrainian border, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that five people were killed and dozens of others injured.
“Ukrainian nationalists deliberately chose peaceful sites and public facilities as their targets,” acting Kursk region Governor Alexander Khinshtein, who was meeting with federal lawmakers in Moscow, said in a video message on Telegram. He said the attack happened in the town of Rylsk.
“I’ve already sent the acting chairman of the [Kursk region] government, Alexei Dedov, and his deputies to the site [of the rocket attack],” Khinshtein said, adding that emergency service personnel were responding to the incident.
Pro-Kremlin media outlets reported that at least five people were killed in the attack and 26 others were injured. It was not immediately possible to verify those reports.
Videos shared online purportedly showed the aftermath of Friday’s strike on Rylsk, with several cars engulfed in flames and multiple buildings badly damaged. Rylsk is located around 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) east of Russia’s border with Ukraine.
There was no immediate response from the Kremlin or Russia’s Defense Ministry. Ukraine has also not commented on the attack.
Earlier on Friday, Russia carried a missile strike on Kyiv in what it called retaliation for a strike using Western-supplied missiles on a chemical plant in Russia earlier in the week. One person was killed and nearly a dozen others were injured in that attack.
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