A drone attack has caused a fire at the airfield in the Russian city of Kursk, which is located near the Ukrainian border, although without causing casualties.
This was reported by the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit, who detailed that the intelligence agencies are on site investigating what happened.
«As a result of a drone attack, an oil storage tank caught fire in the area of the Kursk airfield. There were no casualties. The fire is localized. All intelligence agencies are on the scene,» Starovoit remonstrated in a statement on Telegram.
The regional administration has subsequently indicated that Russian Railways is helping to extinguish the fire registered after the attack on the airfield. «Three trains have been sent to the site, each with two tanks with 120 tons of water and more than five tons of foaming agent,» it said.
Following this, the Kursk authorities have announced a 15-day extension of the anti-terrorist alert decreed in the region, Russian news agency TASS has reported. The Kursk and Belgorod regions have repeatedly denounced attacks by the Ukrainian Army.
The news of the fire comes a day after at least three people were killed and five others injured in an explosion at an airfield in the vicinity of the Russian city of Ryazan, located some 200 kilometers from the capital, Moscow. Shortly before, another explosion was reported at an airfield in Saratov, with no casualties reported.
