Ukraine-Russia War, Missile Pieces on a Kursk Condominium. The Conflict Expands –

Thirteen people were injured last night in the city of Kursk, the capital of the Russian region of the same name and the scene of a Ukrainian ground incursion, when fragments of a downed missile fell on a residential building. “Unfortunately, the attack by Ukrainian terrorists left 13 injured, two of whom are in serious condition,” the acting governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov, wrote on his Telegram channel. The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed a few hours later that it had shot down 14 drones and four Tochka-U missiles in the skies above Kursk.

For the sixth day in a row, Russia is fighting Ukrainian forces that entered the Kursk region on Tuesday, prompting a mass exodus of Russians from border towns. According to official data, at least 76,000 people have left towns near the border with Ukraine in recent days, and today authorities in another border region, Belgorod, also announced that people were fleeing from some towns adjacent to neighboring Kursk over fears of intensifying Ukrainian attacks. According to Russian sources, a Ukrainian T-72 tank and two Kozak armored personnel carriers were destroyed and several Kiev soldiers were killed in the Sudzha district. The Russian National Guard says it located them and hit them with a drone strike.

Meanwhile, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova, appealed to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for a condemnation of “Ukrainian terrorism” in connection with the offensive launched by Kiev in the Kursk region. “As a result of the barbaric attack by the Ukrainian armed forces, thousands of civilians were injured. I sent an appeal to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, calling for a condemnation of Ukrainian terrorism and for measures to prevent human rights violations,” Moskalkova wrote on her Telegram channel.