Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment that operates Su-30SM fighter jets is based at the airbase. The first reports of "multiple explosions" and military casualties at the Khalino airbase appeared on Telegram channels on the evening of Sept.

A Ukraine drone attack on Russia's Kursk region damaged several private houses and an administrative building, while two Ukraine-launched drones were destroyed over the Belgorod region, local governors said on Monday.

In a slow-moving counteroffensive against Russian forces that has been reliant at times on the smallest advantages, a fleet of cheap, mostly off-the-shelf drones is providing one for the Ukrainians. The drones have begun to make a difference in one corner of a stagnant war,

Russia's 14th Guards Fighter Aviation Regiment was inside a building of the Khalino air field near Kursk at the time it was hit by a drone strike on Sept. 24, Ukrainian media outlet Babel reported, citing a source in Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).