A Russian checkpoint within the Kursk area close to the Ukrainian frontier was shelled on Friday, a regional official mentioned, within the newest signal that the conflict is spreading past Ukraine's borders.
The governor of Russia's Kursk area, Roman Starovoyt, mentioned in an announcement on the Telegram messaging app that mortar shells have been fired on the checkpoint within the village of Krupets, near the Ukrainian metropolis of Sumy, at round 8.00 a.m. native time.
Starovoyt mentioned Russian border guards and army "suppressed" the firing positions with retaliatory fireplace.
"There have been no casualties or harm," he wrote.
He didn't clarify if the shells had been fired from inside Ukrainian territory and it was not identified if there have been any casualties on the Ukrainian aspect.
It isn't the primary time that Russian officers have accused Ukraine of shelling checkpoints and Russian targets throughout the border, together with within the Kursk area.
There have additionally been a lot of mysterious incidents on Russian territory, comparable to an explosion and blaze at an oil depot and harm to a railway line. Though Kyiv denied accountability, a Russian Protection Ministry spokesman earlier this month blamed the assaults on Ukrainian forces and threatened to strike "decision-making facilities" in Kyiv in retaliation.
On April 6, Starovoyt accused Ukrainian forces of firing at frontier guards within the Kursk area.
"Yesterday ... they tried to fireside mortars on the place of our border guards within the Sudzhansky district," the regional governor mentioned on the time.
"Russian border guards returned fireplace ... There have been no casualties or harm on our aspect," Starovoyt wrote.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described that alleged incident as "severe."
Newsweek has been unable to independently confirm the stories.
Based on the Russian-language Novye Izvestia media outlet, Ukrainian forces this week fired mortars on the villages of Nekhoteyevka, Zhuravlyovka and Golovchino within the Belgorod area and fired at a checkpoint within the Bryansk area.
Starovoyt mentioned on April 25 that two Ukrainian drones have been shot down within the area by Russian air protection methods.
"Immediately, at 04:15 Moscow time (0115 GMT), the groups of Russian air protection methods shot down two Ukrainian drones over the village of Borovskoye, Rylsky district," the governor wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
"There are not any casualties, accidents, or destruction. The scenario is totally underneath management," he added.
Blasts have been heard within the Russian metropolis of Kursk this week, with video posted on social media purportedly exhibiting the explosions.
A neighborhood Telegram channel publish mentioned that 4 Russian army personnel had died within the Kursk explosion, though this has not been confirmed and Starovoyt mentioned there have been "no casualties," Newsweekbeforehand reported.
The regional governor wrote in a publish on his Telegram channel that the explosions occurred at 2.45 a.m. on Wednesday, April 27, and that "the main points of the incident are being clarified."
"Based on preliminary information, the air protection system labored," Starovoyt wrote.
"There are not any casualties or destruction," the governor mentioned.
Newsweek has contacted Russia's Ministry of International Affairs and Ukrainian authorities for remark.
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