An aide to the Ukrainian president described the incidents as “karma” and retaliation for the war in Ukraine. However, Mykhailo Podolyak, a presidential adviser, did not say whether Ukraine was responsible for the incidents in comments to Telegram. “The reasons for the destruction of military infrastructure in [Russian] “Border regions can be quite different,” he wrote, adding that when one country decides to attack another, “sooner or later the debts will have to be repaid.” Explosions in the center and outskirts of Kursk, a
