Ukraine’s interior minister said one person killed in initial attack before the site was hit again during the evacuation

Australia’s ABC News is rejecting Moscow’s claims that two of its journalists acted illegally by entering the Ukrainian-occupied Kursk region in Russia.

The Russian news agency Tass reported on Friday that the Russian Federal Security Service had “initiated and is investigating criminal cases” against the broadcaster’s Europe correspondent Kathryn Diss and camera operator Fletcher Yeung , as well as Romanian journalist Barbu Mircea , for the crime of “Illegal crossing of Russia’s State Border” – a crime punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment.