Senior security official reports ‘maximum destruction of manpower, equipment, fuel depots, military vehicles, command posts, artillery and air defense forces’
Russia’s Kursk and Belgorod regions came under fire from Ukrainian forces across the border in the early hours of Wednesday, the regions’ governors said, adding that no casualties were reported.
“The town of Valuyki is under fire from Ukraine‘s armed forces,” Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov wrote on the Telegram messaging app at 07:36am local time (0436 GMT).
He did not specify whether it was rocket fire, artillery shelling or some other form of attack.
“Air defence system worked, but there is destruction on the ground,” Gladkov said.
Separately, Roman Starovoyt, the governor of the Kursk region, north of Belgorod and also bordering Ukraine, said that a school and a private house were damaged when the village of Tyotkino came fire, again without specifying the form of attack.
Neither the Guardian nor Reuters have independently verified the reports.
Zelenskiy has again warned Russia may be planning to “simulate an attack” the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, claiming that Russian troops have placed “objects resembling explosives” on the roofs of buildings at the site.
