Russian airport targeted by drones day after barrage on military bases – National | 24CA News

A hearth that broke out at an airport in Russia’s southern Kursk area that borders Ukraine was the results of a drone assault, the regional governor mentioned Tuesday, a day after Moscow blamed Kyiv for drone strikes on two air bases deep inside Russia and launched a brand new wave of missile strikes on Ukrainian territory.

Kursk Governor Roman Starovoy mentioned in a Telegram put up that the drone assault ignited an oil reservoir within the space of Kursk airport and the blaze was being contained by crews on the scene.

Ukrainian officers haven’t formally confirmed finishing up the drone assaults, sustaining their obvious coverage of deliberate ambiguity as they’ve executed up to now in relation to high-profile assaults on Russian targets.

Presidential adviser Mikhail Podolyak taunted Moscow in feedback on Twitter.

“If something is launched into other countries’ airspace, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to the point of departure,” Podolyak wrote. “The earth is round.”

The unprecedented assaults in Russia — greater than 500 kilometers (300 miles) from the border with Ukraine — threatened a significant escalation of the nine-month warfare. One of the airfields homes bombers able to carrying nuclear weapons.

The assaults additionally uncovered the vulnerability of a few of Russia’s most strategic army websites, elevating questions concerning the effectiveness of their air defences.

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Russia’s Defence Ministry mentioned three Russian servicemen have been killed and 4 others wounded by particles, and that two plane have been barely broken.

The ministry didn’t say the place the drones had originated. But Russian army bloggers mentioned they seemingly have been launched by Ukrainian scouts, and argued that the strikes had inflicted critical reputational harm on Moscow.

The assaults on the Engels base within the Saratov area on the Volga River and the Dyagilevo base within the Ryazan area in western Russia have been a part of Ukraine’s efforts to curtail Russia’s long-range bomber pressure, the ministry mentioned.

The Engels base hosts Tu-95 and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers which were concerned in strikes on Ukraine. Dyagilevo homes tanker plane used for mid-air refueling.

In a each day intelligence replace on the warfare in Ukraine, Britain’s Defence Ministry mentioned Russia was prone to think about the bottom assaults as “some of the most strategically significant failures of force protection since its invasion of Ukraine.”

It mentioned the bombers would seemingly be dispersed to different airfields.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov mentioned that Russian authorities will “take the necessary measures” to boost safety of key services in view of the newest Ukrainian assaults.

Speaking in a convention name with reporters Tuesday, Peskov mentioned that “the Ukrainian regime’s course for continuation of such terror attacks poses a threat.”

Peskov reaffirmed that Russia sees no prospects for peace talks now, including that “the Russian Federation must achieve its stated goals.”

Russia, in the meantime, maintained intense assaults on Ukrainian territory, shelling cities in a single day close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant that left greater than 9,000 properties with out working water, native Ukrainian officers mentioned.

The cities lie throughout the Dnieper river from the nuclear plant, which was seized by Russian forces within the early phases of the warfare. Russia and Ukraine have for months accused one another of shelling at and across the plant.

The head of Ukraine’s northern Sumy area, which borders Russia, mentioned that Moscow launched over 80 missile and heavy artillery assaults on its territory. Governor Dmytro Zhyvytsky mentioned the strikes broken a monastery close to the border city of Shalyhyne.

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