A drone crashed on the night of Saturday August 26 to Sunday August 27 on a residential building in Kursk, capital of the region of the same name bordering Ukraine, without causing any casualties, local authorities announced. “According to preliminary information, a drone crashed into a building in Kursk,” regional governor Roman Starovoit wrote on Telegram.
As a result of the incident, “windows on several floors were smashed,” he said, adding that a nearby regional university building was also affected. “There was no fire, no one among the residents was injured,” the governor stressed.
For its part, the Russian Ministry of Defense said in a press release that it had shot down two Ukrainian drones on Sunday in the Kursk region and in that of Bryansk, which also borders Ukraine. Ukrainian drone attacks and bombings of Russian regions bordering Ukraine have increased in recent months.
On Saturday, Russia claimed to have shot down three Ukrainian drones on its approach to Moscow and in the Belgorod region bordering Ukraine, where one civilian was killed and six others were injured in Ukrainian strikes the same day.
