Twelve civilians, including two minors, have been injured by Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Kursk Region, acting Governor Aleksandr Khinshtein has said.
In a post on his Telegram channel on Thursday, the official wrote that the Ukrainian military had “conducted a massive strike on the city of Lgov,” with the Kursk-Rylsk highway coming under fire.
“As a result of the strike, there are, unfortunately, 12 injuries, with two children among them – a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old,” Khinshtein wrote. According to the acting governor, the younger victim sustained shrapnel wounds, while the other minor received a concussion. The other victims include seven women and three men, all of them currently being hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and bruises.
On top of that, three residential buildings and four vehicles were damaged in the attack, with the extent of destruction currently being evaluated by the authorities, according to the statement.
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes, told TASS last week that from May 7 through May 11, Ukrainian forces repeatedly targeted several Russian regions, killing a number of civilians. The attacks took place despite a unilateral ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin to mark the 80th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, Miroshnik noted.
According to the official, who is tasked with documenting Kiev’s alleged war crimes, in one incident in Kursk Region, which borders Ukraine, a man perished in a strike that involved a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. In another similar case in the same region, a woman was killed after a bomb was dropped on the village of Glushkovo.
Khinshtein also reported that Ukrainian shelling had heavily damaged a hotel and several nearby homes around the same time.
Russia set on creating ‘buffer zone’ in Ukraine – Putin
RT
The Russian military has been tasked with creating a “security buffer zone” along the border with Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
The president made the remarks during a government meeting dedicated to the situation in Russia’s border regions, including Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk. Additional measures to support their residents were also discussed.
“It has been decided to create the necessary security buffer zone along the border. Our armed forces are actively solving this task now. The enemy’s firing positions are suppressed, the work is going on,” Putin stated.
The idea to create “a certain cordon sanitaire” in Ukrainian-controlled territory along the border was first floated by Putin last March. The president said Moscow could ultimately be “forced” to create such a zone in order to protect civilians in the border regions from Ukrainian long-range strikes. Russian troops would create a “security zone that would be quite difficult for the adversary to overcome with its weapons, primarily of foreign origin,” if and “when we consider it appropriate,” Putin stated at the time.
Putin’s announcement comes in the wake of an indiscriminate Ukrainian strike on the Kursk town of Lgov that left at least 12 civilians wounded, including two children. According to interim Kursk Governor Aleksandr Khinshtein, the attack targeted an area near the Kursk-Rylsk highway where the route enters the town. Media reports indicated the strike involved at least three projectiles fired by a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher.
Over the past two days, Kiev conducted a massive long-range drone attack even deeper into Russia. According to the Russian Defense Ministry, a total of 485 Ukrainian fixed-wing UAVs were downed across the country in the past 48 hours. At least 63 of the drones were intercepted in Moscow Region, while the largest number were stopped over Orel Region, the military said.
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