Two children are among the 16 people who sustained injuries as a result of the attack on Kursk Region, Aleksandr Khinshtein has reported
Sixteen civilians, including two minors, have been injured by Ukrainian shelling of Russia’s Kursk Region, acting Governor Aleksandr Khinshtein has said.
In a post on his Telegram channel on Thursday, the official wrote that the Ukrainian military had “conducted a massive strike on the city of Lgov,” with the Kursk-Rylsk highway coming under fire.
“As a result of the strike, there are, unfortunately… injuries, with two children among them – a 13-year-old and a 16-year-old,” Khinshtein wrote. According to the acting governor, the younger victim sustained shrapnel wounds, while the other minor received a concussion.
Fourteen other victims have been hospitalized with shrapnel wounds and bruises. None of the civilians sustained life-threatening injuries, but four of them remain in serious condition, Khinshtein noted.
On top of that, three residential buildings and four vehicles were damaged in the attack, with the extent of destruction currently being evaluated by the authorities, according to the statement.
Rodion Miroshnik, the Russian Foreign Ministry’s ambassador-at-large for war crimes, told TASS last week that from May 7 through May 11, Ukrainian forces repeatedly targeted several Russian regions, killing a number of civilians. The attacks took place despite a unilateral ceasefire declared by President Vladimir Putin to mark the 80th anniversary of Soviet victory over Nazi Germany, Miroshnik noted.
According to the official, who is tasked with documenting Kiev’s alleged war crimes, in one incident in Kursk Region, which borders Ukraine, a man perished in a strike that involved a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launcher. In another similar case in the same region, a woman was killed after a bomb was dropped on the village of Glushkovo.
Khinshtein also reported that Ukrainian shelling had heavily damaged a hotel and several nearby homes around the same time.
“Two men suffered serious shrapnel wounds to the head and arms, as well as bone fractures – they are in critical condition. A woman received shrapnel wounds to the forearm and thigh, but her life is not in danger,” the official wrote.
Last August, Kiev launched a surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region, capturing some border territories that Ukrainian officials had hoped to use as leverage in future peace negotiations. The Russian military announced in late April that it had squeezed the Ukrainian military out of the region.
