Russia declared on Sunday that Ukrainian air forces launched a drone attack on a railway station in the southern Russian city of Kursk igniting fires and wounding at least five people.
The state-run Tass news agency said the attack damaged the terminal, shattered glass and wounded five people at the city railway station, some 150 kilometers from the Russian-Ukrainian border.
Kursk's governor, Roman Starovoyt, was quoted by the news agency as saying that the attack triggered fires and inflicted damage at the terminal passenger hall.
Meanwhile, Russian Ministry of Defense said in a statement that the air defenses thwarted an identical attack targeting installations in the capital Moscow. The pilotless aircraft was shot down over an uninhabited region, the ministry said.
It added that the futile attack inflicted no injuries and quoted Moscow's mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, as saying the authorities halted aviation via Domodedovo and Vnukovo airports in the capital suburbs and diverted flights to other air facilities.
Ukrainian air forces have been repeatedly carrying out such attacks, some deep in the Russian territories, amid ongoing fighting raging on Ukrainian territories between Russian and Ukrainian forces.
The armed conflict between the Russian and Ukrainian forces have largely turned into a war of attrition. Moscow launched what it had dubbed as "the special military operation" into Ukraine on February 24, 2022. Western powers, namely the Nato, have been backing the Ukrainian with arms.
Source: Kuwait News Agency