Russian authorities announced Wednesday their decision to extend for two weeks the anti-terrorist alert decreed in April in the Kursk region, located on the border with Ukraine, amid the invasion unleashed on February 24 and following the latest attacks by the Ukrainian Army against the area.
«By a decision adopted today by the anti-terrorist commission, as of December 21, the ‘yellow’ level of anti-terrorist alert in the Kursk region is extended for 15 days,» said the regional governor, Roman Starovoit, in a brief message posted on his Telegram account.
The Kursk region and other Russian regions located on the border have repeatedly denounced attacks by the Ukrainian army, in the framework of the invasion launched on the orders of Russian President Vladimir Putin, who days before had recognized the independence of the self-proclaimed republics of Donetsk and Lugansk, located in eastern Ukraine and the scene of a conflict since 2014.
In fact, in early December, a fire was recorded at an airfield in Kursk following a drone attack blamed on the Ukrainian Army. «As a result of a drone attack, an oil storage tank caught fire in the area of the Kursk airfield. There were no casualties,» Starovoit said at the time.
The incident took place a day after at least three people were killed by an explosion at an airfield in the vicinity of the Russian city of Ryazan, located about 200 kilometers from the capital, Moscow. Shortly before that, another explosion had been recorded at an airfield in Saratov in a series of drone attacks by Kiev.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
