Russia claims shooting down three missiles over Kursk region

He wrote about this on Telegram.

"Air defense systems were activated in the sky over Kursk and the Kursk region. I ask residents to remain calm!" Starovoit wrote.

Later, the governor of the Kursk region wrote that, according to preliminary information, 3 Ukrainian missiles were allegedly "shot down over the territory of the Fatezh district by regular air defense systems."

Later, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced that three Tochka-U missiles had been shot down over the Kursk region.

"Three Tochka-U missiles were destroyed over the Kursk region by regular air defense systems," the statement reads.

• Ukraine's Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence Yuriy Mysyahin and sources in the Ukrainian Defense Forces reported that two Russian aircraft were shot down over the Sea of Azov.