According to the Interior Ministry in Kiev, at least ten people were killed and 35 others injured in a Russian attack on a supermarket in Kostiantynivka in eastern Ukraine. Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko announced the new number of victims yesterday on the online service Telegram and published photos of the fire service’s operation in the rubble of the building.
“Russian terrorists struck an ordinary supermarket and post office. People are under the rubble,” President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram, expressing his condolences to the victims’ families. According to the Interior Ministry, a fire broke out on a good 1,000 square meters. Kostiantynivka is just over ten kilometers from the front line between Ukrainian and Russian troops.
Advance into Russian territory
Three days after the surprise advance of Ukrainian troops into the Russian region of Kursk, Ukraine has launched drone attacks on several regions of Russia. After an attack on a military airfield near the city of Lipetsk, around 300 kilometers north of the Ukrainian-Russian border, there were massive explosions in an ammunition depot during the night.
Air raid warnings were also issued in the neighboring regions of Kursk, Bryansk, Belgorod and Voronezh, as well as in Crimea. Russian authorities said more than 70 drones were intercepted. Governor Igor Artamonov said on Telegram that a state of emergency had been declared in Lipetsk to eliminate the consequences of the explosions.
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Four villages around the military airport were to be evacuated. According to the governor, public transport was suspended in Lipetsk and the surrounding area. Damage to a power plant led to power outages. Nine people were injured as a result of the attacks. The military airport is a good 280 kilometers as the crow flies from the Ukrainian border.
The Ukrainian army claimed responsibility for the drone attack on the military airfield in Lipetsk. The attack hit “guided bomb depots and other facilities in the area of the air base,” the Ukrainian General Staff said yesterday. Zelensky had announced shortly before that the war would be expanded to Russia. “Russia has brought the war to our country and should feel what it has done,” the head of state said in his evening video address, without going into detail about the fighting in the Kursk region.