Russian forces in Kursk Oblast have swelled, as Moscow launches a counteroffensive against Ukraine's month-long operation that has captured 1,000 square kilometers in the region.
Earlier this week, Russian forces launched a counteroffensive in Kursk Oblast, where Ukrainian troops have controlled about 1,000 square kilometers since their early August incursion.
Russian officials allege that Ukraine launched a coordinated drone assault on three strategic airfields, including ones housing fighter jets used for long-range strikes.
As Ukrainian forces advance into Russia's Kursk Oblast, Kyiv maintains silence. Only Mykhailo Podoliak, a presidential advisor, comments, suggesting the incursion could influence future peace talks.
Western allies showed divisions over whether to allow Ukraine to use their weapons to hit targets inside Russia, with France and Germany appearing to back some strikes but the US rejecting the idea.
On 19 May, drones targeted an oil depot and an airfield in Russia's Krasnodar Krai and explosions occurred in occupied Crimea. Meanwhile, a fire broke out at Russia's Saint Petersburg oil depot, with local officials denying it resulted from a drone attack.
Overnight, a massive drone attack targeted oil facilities in Tuapse and Novorossiysk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, hundreads of kilometers behind the frontline.
Overnight drone attack in Russia's Volgograd Oblast causes freight train derailment at Kotluban station, igniting two fuel carriages and disrupting railway operations, as per media reports.
Suspilne sources claim drone attacks on Russia's Volgograd oil refinery, Kaluga oil depot, Lipetsk steel mill. Volgograd media confirm at least one of the attacks.