Experts are assessing the damage resulting from the incident in Kurchatov, Roman Starovoyt says
Two unmanned aircraft have targeted the Russian city of Kurchatov, an industrial hub adjacent to the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant, the governor of Kursk Region said on Friday morning.
“In the morning, Kurchatov was attacked by two Ukrainian drones. An administrative building and a residential building were damaged,” Roman Starovoyt wrote on his Telegram channel.
While there were no immediate reports of any damage to critical infrastructure, the official added that emergency services are working at the scene “assessing the extent of the damage.”
The city of Kurchatov is located in Kursk Region, which shares a border with Ukraine. It was founded in the late 1960s and named after physicist Sergey Kurchatov, dubbed the “father” of the Soviet atomic bomb. The Kursk Nuclear Power Plant sits roughly 4 kilometers (2.4 miles) outside urban areas in Kurchatov.
Back in July, a drone went down and exploded in Kurchatov, causing minor damage to the facade of an apartment bloc and shattering some windows. Luckily, the incident caused no casualties or damage to critical infrastructure.
The Russian border regions of Kursk, Bryansk and Belgorod, as well as Crimea and Moscow, have been frequently targeted by drones since Moscow launched its military operation in Ukraine in February 2022. Russian officials have also accused Kiev of plotting acts of sabotage targeting the country’s major infrastructure sites, including nuclear power plants.
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