Ukraine war briefing: Second night of Moscow drone raids, Kursk substation hit
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Tue, 06 May 2025 03:27:27 +0300
Ukrainian forces reportedly smash back across border into Kursk, where Syrski says offensive has achieved most of its goals.
What we know on day 1,168Ukraine has launched drones at Moscow for the second night in a row, forcing closure of the capitals three major airports, Russian officials said early on Wednesday.
The mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, said six Ukrainian drones approached Moscow and what he claimed was debris from an intercepted drone fell over one of the key highways leading into the city.
Russias aviation authority, Rosaviatsia, said it halted flights at airports serving Moscow including Vnukovo, Domodedovo and Zhukovsky.Ukrainian forces attacked a power substation at the town of Rylsk in Russias western Kursk region, the regional governor said early on Tuesday, after Russian war bloggers reported Ukrainian forces firing missiles had smashed through the border in Kursk, crossing minefields with armoured vehicles.
The Kursk governor, Alexander Khinshtein, said two people were injured in the substation attack, while two transformers were damaged and power cut.The Russian military blog Rybar said Ukrainian units were trying to advance in Kursk near the settlements of Tyotkino and Glushkovo.
The Ukrainian military said its forces had struck a Russian drone command unit near Tyotkino on Sunday.
Russia said Ukrainian attacks on its border area near the Sumy region killed three people.
Ukrainian prosecutors said on Monday that Russian forces had subjected two settlements in the Sumy region bordering Kursk Bilopillya and Vorozhba to artillery fire and guided bomb attacks, killing three residents and injuring four.
Local officials ordered evacuations in part of Sumy across from the fighting in Kursk.The Ukrainian commanderinchief, Gen Oleksandr Syrsky, said on Monday that the Kursk offensive had achieved most of its goals, showing Ukraines military capabilities and preventing Russia from launching offensives elsewhere on the frontline.
In recent weeks, Russia claimed to have quashed Ukraines Kursk incursion, but Ukraines president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, says Kyivs forces continue to operate there and in the adjacent Russian region of Belgorod.A Czechled ammunition initiative has supplied Ukraine with half a million largecalibre rounds already since the start of the year, the Czech Republics prime minister, Petr Fiala, said on Monday after meeting Zelenskyy in Prague.
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