A video posted on Smirnov’s Telegram channel showed him at a destroyed house amid piles of rubble and building materials KYIV: The governor of southern Russia’s Kursk region said on Saturday that Ukrainian forces had shelled parts of the region throughout the day after an overnight drone attack on a village killed five people, including two children. Governor Alexei Smirnov, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the five fatalities occurred in a house in the village of Gorodishche, east of the regional center of Kursk. Two family members were being treated in hospital. A video posted on Smirnov’s Telegram channel showed him at a destroyed house amid piles of rubble and building materials. Smirnov said Ukrainian forces had shelled eight villages near the border intermittently throughout the day. Two residents from the village of Guyevo were reported to have been injured. Reuters could not independently verify the reported shelling of the region.