Russia fired missiles at energy infrastructure in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday hours after an overnight drone strike on the region, reducing power in some areas and forcing authorities to use back-up power systems.

Russian drone attacks overnight targeted energy facilities in northeastern Ukraine, officials said Tuesday. The attacks knocked out power in the Sumy region, where officials said Ukrainian air defenses shot down 16 of the drones.

Ukraine claims to have shot down 34 out of the 51 drones launched by Russia, while Russia says it destroyed 16 Ukrainian drones in the border regions of Bryansk and Kursk. Another day of the war in Ukraine,

Russia has brought in “significant” reinforcements to carry out a sweeping counterattack on the western flank of Ukraine’s incursion into the Kursk region, maps and analysis have revealed. Ukraine launched its cross-border attack at the start of last month,

Russia ordered the evacuation of villages close to the Ukrainian border in the Kursk region on Monday, as Moscow ramped up efforts to regain control of land seized in Kyiv's incursion."I instructed the Ukrainian foreign ministry to officially invite the UN and ICRC to join humanitarian efforts in the Kursk region,