One killed by Ukrainian missile attack on Russian cultural center – governor
One person was killed and at least five others were wounded in a Ukrainian missile attack on a cultural and leisure center in Russia’s Kursk Region on Monday, Governor Aleksandr Khinshtein has said.
The facility was located in the village of Prigorodnyaya Slobodka, located 53km from Russia’s border with Ukraine, Khinshtein wrote in a post on Telegram on Monday.
“According to preliminary data, a 64-year-old man was killed in the strike… I express my sincerest condolences to his family and friends. We will provide the family with all the necessary assistance,” he said.
Other civilians have been hospitalized with injuries as a result of the attack, the governor wrote. Three men, including the center’s chief engineer, sustained shrapnel wounds, bruises and fractures, while two women suffered concussions, he added.
The strike delivered significant damage to the building and caused a large blaze, spanning some 400 square meters, the governor wrote.
Khinshtein also published a video of the burning cultural center and firefighters working to extinguish the flames.
According to unconfirmed reports on Telegram channels, the building was hit from a US-supplied HIMARS multiple rocket launch system.
In late April, Moscow announced the full liberation of the border areas of Kursk Region, part of which had been seized by Kiev’s troops after they launched an incursion last August. However, Ukraine has continued to target the region’s civilians with missile strikes, drone attacks and sabotage.
On Sunday, approximately 30,000 people were left without electricity after Ukrainian forces struck a substation in the area.
In early June, a railway bridge collapsed under a moving freight train in Kursk Region, leaving the driver and two of his assistants wounded. The same day, another bridge went down in front of a moving passenger train in neighboring Bryansk Region, killing seven people and injuring more than 100.
Both incidents were declared “terrorist attacks” by Russia’s Investigative Committee, which has said that Ukraine was responsible.
