Kursk Governor reported a drone attack near the airfield

A drone attacked an airfield in the Kursk region, as a result of which an oil storage tank caught fire, informed Governor Roman Starovoit in his Telegram channel.

“As a result of a drone attack, an oil storage tank caught fire in the area of ​​the Kursk airfield. There were no casualties,” he wrote.

Now work is underway to localize the fire, all special services are working on the spot, Starovoit added.

Yesterday, December 5, APU tried to attack with drones the airfields “Dyagilevo” in the Ryazan region and “Engels” in the Saratov region, the targets of the attacks were long-range aircraft, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The drones were intercepted by air defense, however, when their fragments fell and exploded, three servicemen were killed, and the hull skin of two aircraft was also slightly damaged.

The Ministry of Defense also noted that on the afternoon of December 5, the Russian Armed Forces again inflicted a massive strike on the military command and control system and related objects of the defense complex, communication centers, energy and military units of Ukraine, hitting all 17 designated objects.

Since the beginning of the special operation, the Ukrainian military has been regularly shelling the border regions of Russia. On November 20, the “yellow” (high) level of terrorist threat was extended in the Kursk region until December 6. A similar decision was made by the authorities of the Belgorod region.

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