Published 9 August 2024 at 10.16
Foreign. Ukraine has carried out a major attack against the Russian Lipetsk region and successfully destroyed energy supplies and attacked an airfield and its surroundings, several media reports. At the same time, Ukraine's ground offensive in Russian Kursk continues.
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”Stay at home. Do not go near the windows. If you are outside, enter the nearest building,” writes Governor Igor Artamonov in a post on Telegram.
Nine people are said to have been injured in the attack, according to Russian authorities.
A military air base in the region has caught fire, according to Tass. Russian authorities have not specified the cause of the fire, but Ukraine claims that a bomb warehouse was destroyed, Reuters reports.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, Ukraine has used a total of 75 drones to attack parts of Russia.
At the same time, Ukraine's offensive continues in Russian Kursk, where Ukrainian units have penetrated two Russian defense lines and taken control of 45 square kilometers of the county, according to the American think tank ISW.