It is day 589 of the war in Ukraine. The Ukrainian Armed Forces reported an attack by Russian drones in the south and south-east of Ukraine. The authorities of Russia’s Kursk region said it had been attacked by Ukraine’s drones and cluster munitions overnight. Private medical clinics in Russia have been ordered to start sharing patient information with draft offices.
Novaya-Europe’s news roundup will brief you on the main developments overnight.
Russia attacks Ukraine with Shahed drones
The Ukrainian Armed Forces said on Thursday that Russian drones had attacked the south and south-east of Ukraine, with air-raid sirens sounding in the Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipro, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia, Sumy, and Kharkiv regions of the country.
Furthermore, explosions have been reported in the Kropyvnytskyi and Poltava regions of Ukraine.
According to the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian forces attacked Ukraine overnight using 29 Shahed-136/131 drones, 24 of which were destroyed by Ukraine’s air defence systems. “Unfortunately, civilians were killed and injured in Russian terror attacks,” the statement said.
Ukrainian drones attack Russia’s Kursk
Ukrainian drones attacked infrastructure facilities in the city of Kursk overnight, the governor of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt said on Thursday, adding that blackouts were reported in the region.
“Repair crews have already begun fixing the power supply,” he noted.
Ukraine also shelled a town in the Kursk region, Rylsk, with cluster munitions, Starovoyt later said. A woman sustained shrapnel wounds and was hospitalised.
According to Starovoyt, several buildings and cars were damaged in the attack on Rylsk, while unexploded munitions were later discovered in the town. Deminers are currently at the scene.