Ukrainian drone hits Russian military site in Volgograd

Officials in southern Russia’s Volgograd region said Thursday a Ukrainian drone hit a military facility and sparked a fire.
Andrei Bocharov, the regional governor, said on Telegram the attack happened in the Marinovka area and that there were no injuries. A Russian air base is located in the area.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said Thursday that Ukrainian forces attacked overnight with a total of 28 drones, with 13 targeting Volgograd. The Rostov, Belgorod, Voronezh, Bryansk and Kursk regions were also targeted.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday he visited border areas in Ukraine’s Sumy region and met with military officials.
Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces had captured another settlement in Russia’s Kursk region, across the border from Sumy, where Ukrainian forces launched an offensive earlier this month.
The offensive was a rare move by Ukraine, which for months has relied on drones to go after targets in Russian border regions. Targets have often included Russian military sites that are used to direct drone and missile attacks against Ukraine
Ukraine’s military said Thursday it shot down two Russian drones overnight after Russia launched an aerial attack from Kursk.
Alexei Smirnov, the regional governor of Kursk, said Thursday that authorities were installing concrete air-raid shelters in the regional capital.
In Russia’s Bryansk region, which borders Kursk, officials said Russian forces thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian fighters to cross the border Wednesday.
Russia’s FSB security service said Thursday it opened criminal cases against several journalists, accusing them of illegally crossing the border to report on the Ukrainian incursion in Kursk.
The FSB named CNN correspondent Nick Paton Walsh among those who had reported from Sudzha, along with two Ukrainian journalists.
Some information for this report came from Agence France-Presse and Reuters.