(Reuters) – A Ukrainian overnight drone attack killed an 85-year-old woman, injured nine people and sparked fires in several buildings in the Russian city of Kursk near the border with Ukraine, regional authorities said on Tuesday.
“Kursk has been subjected to a massive enemy attack overnight,” the Kursk region administration said in a post on Telegram messaging app.
A multi-storey apartment building was damaged in result of the drone attack, with several flats catching fire, acting mayor of Kursk, Sergei Kotlyarov said on Telegram. Residents have been evacuated to a nearby school, he added.
Drones also hit also an ambulance garage, damaging 11 cars, the region’s administration said.
The scale of the attack was not immediately clear but Russia’s Baza and SHOT Telegram channels, which often publish information from sources in the security services and law enforcement, said that more than 20 blasts shook the city.
They posted photos of what looked like a multi-storey residential building on fire at night.
Reuters could not independently verify the reports. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine. Both sides deny targeting civilians in the war, which Russia launched with a full-scale invasion on Ukraine more than three years ago.
Ukrainian troops, which staged a cross-border incursion into the Kursk region of which the city of Kursk is the administrative centre, still remain in parts of it, although Russian forces have recaptured much lost territory.
The attack follows a Russian missile and bomb attack on the Ukrainian city of Sumy over the weekend that killed 35 people and injured at least 119.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Lincoln Feast.)
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