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Russian authorities announced that the Lipetsk region of Russia, far from the border with… Ukraine A large-scale attack by Ukrainian drones damaged a military air base and a power plant, and the border region of Belgorod and the city of Sevastopol were also hit. Crimea For drone attacks too.
The governor of Russia's Lipetsk region, Igor Artamonov, said in a post on Telegram that authorities had declared a state of emergency in the western region on Friday morning and evacuated residents of four villages, some of which are located near an air base on the outskirts of the city.
Artamonov said that the large-scale Ukrainian drone attack resulted in explosions and power outages in the area.
Russia's state news agencies TASS and RIA Novosti said a military air base in Lipetsk, about 300 kilometers (186 miles) from the border with Ukraine, was on fire after being attacked by Ukraine late Thursday.
The two agencies quoted the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations as saying that “a fire broke out at a military airport in the Lipetsk region,” without mentioning the reasons for the outbreak.
Other attacks
This comes as the Russian region of Belgorod, located near the Ukrainian border, was attacked by Ukrainian drones.
The regional governor of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that Russian air defenses shot down 29 drones, stressing that the attack caused material damage but no injuries or loss of life.
The governor of Sevastopol, in Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, also said his city had been attacked by Ukrainian drones from the air and sea.
Since last Tuesday, the Russian Kursk region bordering Ukraine has witnessed a major incursion by the Ukrainian army, involving more than 1,000 soldiers and dozens of armored military vehicles, according to the Russian General Staff, which said it was doing everything in its power to repel it.
Zelensky comments
In his first comment on the incursion of his forces into the Russian border region of Kursk, the Ukrainian president said: Volodymyr Zelensky “Russia brought war to our lands, and it must feel what it has done.”
Zelensky added that his country seeks to achieve its goals as soon as possible to reach peace on fair terms, stressing that this will inevitably happen.
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, via Telegram, referred to the international reaction to the Ukrainian ground attack in the Kursk region, describing the response as calm, balanced, objective and based on international law and the principles governing defensive warfare.
And it was European Union He said on Thursday that he believed the Ukrainian incursion was part of the country's “legitimate defensive war,” a spokesman for the bloc said in Brussels.
The spokesman for the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy said: Josep BorrellUkraine “has the right to defend itself” against Russia, including the right to “strike the enemy on its territory.”
