Ukraine attacks power station amid reports of new offensive in Russia’s Kursk

Kyiv forces attacked a power substation in Russia’s western Kursk region, the regional governor said on Tuesday, after Russian war bloggers reported a new Ukrainian land-based incursion into the area backed by armoured vehicles and drones.

Power was yet to be restored to the town of Rylsk, a town of about 15,000 people about 50km (30 miles) from the border with Ukraine, after Ukrainian forces struck the substation there late on Monday, damaging two transformers and injuring two teenagers, Kursk Governor Alexander Khinshtein said.

“Dear residents, the enemy, in its agony, is continuing to launch strikes against our territory,” Khinshtein said on the Telegram messaging app.

Authorities were evacuating residents from areas near the border as Ukrainian drone attacks over the past day became “more frequent”, the administration of the Kursk region said on Telegram early on Tuesday.

Russian war bloggers reported that Ukrainian forces attacked the Kursk region on Monday, firing missiles, smashing through the border and crossing minefields with special vehicles.