The authorities of Russia’s Smolensk and Kursk regions report that their regions have been attacked by drones.
In the Smolensk region, two drones attacked fuel and energy sector facilities, according to the acting governor Vasily Anokhin. There were no casualties.
Photo: Vasily Anokhin / Telegram
According to Russian Telegram channel Baza, kamikaze drones attacked an oil-processing and a gas distribution stations in the Smolensk region: at around 2 AM, a drone blew up on the territory of Transneft’s oil-processing station in the Peresna village. Half an hour later, another drone attacked a gas distribution station in the Divasy villages, an administration building was damaged as well.
Photo: Vasily Anokhin / Telegram
The head of the Kursk region Roman Starovoyt says that in the early hours of 2 June air defence shot down “several Ukrainian drones” near Kursk. According to Baza, eight drones were downed in total; the attack lasted half an hour. Drone debris damaged several houses.
Starovoyt later clarified that multiple private buildings and an entrance to a multi-storey residential building had been damaged in the attack.
Photo: Roman Starovoyt / Telegram
The governor of the Bryansk region Alexander Bogomaz says that the region was shelled twice in the morning from the direction of Ukraine (he does not clarify with what). There were no casualties, a semi-detached house caught fire in a local village.
Furthermore, as per the head of the Kaluga region Vladislav Shapsha, an “unidentified object” fell down in the woods of the region, the crash led to an explosion. No one was hurt, there was no significant damage, the authorities report.
Yesterday, 1 June, the Belgorod region of Russia was subjected to massive shelling. According to the latest data, at least 11 people were hospitalised.
