 Small buses and dozens of cars left Kursan on May 5 as the southern Ukrainian city prepared to start a 58-hour curfew following a spate of Russian attacks before a widely expected Ukrainian counter-offensive. Kursan, which Ukraine recaptured from Russian troops last November after eight months of Russian occupation, is regularly bombarded from across the river Dnieper where Moscow's forces control swelts of the Kursan region. Two villages in the Ukrainian-controlled part of Kursan region were hit four times on Friday by Russian-guided bombs that destroyed a church building and damaged 20 residential homes, the regional administration said. One person was also wounded in the attacks, it said without providing details. On Wednesday, 23 people were killed by Russian shelling in the region, local officials said.