 Dozens of Kursan residents arrived at the local bus station on May 4 to evacuate the city after Russian shelling killed 23 people a day earlier, hitting a hypermarket, a railway station and residential buildings, the regional governor said. Cues formed in front of buses as people, including women with children and elderly residents, waited with their luggage to board. Regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin said another 46 people had been wounded in Wednesday's attacks and announced a curfew in Kursan city to last from Friday evening until Monday morning for law enforcement reasons. He gave no other details. President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday decried the attacks on Kursan, condemning the bloody trail that Russia leaves behind with its shells. The dead included three engineers trying to repair damage inflicted on the power grid in earlier Russian bombardments, local officials said. Russia did not immediately comment on the attacks in Kursan, one of four Ukrainian regions it said it annexed last September. Moscow has denied targeting civilians in its invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022. Moscow has stepped up airstrikes on Ukraine in the past few days as Kiev prepares for a counter-offensive in which it is expected to try to retake occupied territory in Kursan region.