Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv ‘strikes Putin’s airfields’ 500 miles over border amid Kursk incursion

Ukraine carried out its largest long-range drone strike of the war on four Russian military airfields, security sources claimed.

The strike, which targeted Russia’s Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleyka and Borisoglebsk air bases up to 500 miles over the border, was aimed to undermine Moscow’s ability to use warplanes for glide bomb attacks .

It comes as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky claimed his army was continuing to advance deeper into Russia after it launched an incursion over the border just over a week ago.

Zelensky said his forces have moved forward one to two kilometres in various directions inside Kursk today, although this hasn’t been independently verified.

In Belgorod , which borders Kursk, the governor said the situation was “extremely tense” and claimed Kyiv ’s troops had been shelling his oblast over the past few days.

“We are making a decision to declare a regional emergency situation throughout the Belgorod region with a subsequent appeal to the government to declare a federal emergency situation,” Vyacheslav Gladkov said.