Four killed in Ukrainian strike on town in Russia’s Kursk region

Four people were killed and at least five injured in Ukrainian shelling of the town of Lgov in Russia’s western Kursk region on Wednesday morning, Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed governor of the region, said on his Telegram channel.

Footage from Lgov published on social media shows fires that had broken out in several locations, burnt out cars and a damaged five-storey building.

Khinshtein added that a “minor section” of a gas pipeline had been destroyed in the attack, adding that gas and electricity supply in neighbouring buildings had been “temporarily cut off”.

While Khinshtein did not clarify what weapons were used in the attack, a source in the Russian Investigative Committee told state-owned news agency TASS that the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) had fired missiles from a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher”.

Meanwhile, the AFU said in a statement on Wednesday that Ukraine had targeted a “control centre” of Russia’s 810th Separate Guards Marine Brigade overnight located in an “abandoned civilian building”.

Local Telegram channel Pepel Kursk pointed out that the reported attack had taken place in the morning, however, not overnight.

The Russian Defence Ministry has not yet commented on the reported strike.

Lgov, which is beyond the territory in the Russian Kursk region that has been under AFU control since Kyiv launched a surprise incursion into the area in August, is not the first town in the Kursk region to come under attack over the past week.

Six people, including a child, were killed on Friday as the town of Rylsk was struck by “several missiles fired from a HIMARS multiple rocket launcher”, Khinshtein said at the time.