Explosions at military airports
Report: Ukrainian special forces controlled drone strike from Russia
12/06/2022, 07:19 am
On Monday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported two drone attacks on military bases far inland. Officially, Ukraine does not take responsibility for this, but unofficially it does. Ukrainian special forces could therefore be in the immediate vicinity of Moscow.
Ukraine is apparently ready to fight the war in the heart of Russia. As the “New York Times” As reported, a government official in Kyiv has confirmed that Ukrainian forces are responsible for two drone strikes on Russian military bases on Monday. At least one air strike was controlled by special forces who are said to have been near one of the Russian bases.
According to the report, the version of the Ukrainian government official agrees with that of the Russian Defense Ministry. Accordingly, Ukraine attacked the two air bases far inland from Russia with unmanned drones from the Soviet Union. According to Moscow, three soldiers were killed and four others injured. In addition, two aircraft are said to have been slightly damaged.
The affected military airfields are located hundreds of kilometers from the Ukrainian border, and bombers from the Russian nuclear forces are stationed at one of them. There have been no attacks by the Ukrainian military this far inland since the beginning of the war. According to Kyiv, rocket attacks on Ukraine are also flown from there. The Ukrainian government has not officially commented on the drone attacks.
Another explosion in Kursk
The bases are, on the one hand, the Diagilevo air base in the Ryazan region, 185 kilometers south-east of Moscow. According to the state news agency RIA, three people died in the explosion of a tanker truck. The Engels air base in the Saratov region, 730 kilometers south-east of the Russian capital, was also attacked. Shortly after the attacks, Russia again fired dozens of rockets at Ukraine.
Just one day later, another explosion was reported from Russia. According to official information, an oil tank caught fire at an airfield in the Russian region of Kursk during a drone attack on Tuesday morning. “There were no injuries. The fire is localized. All emergency services are working on site,” writes the governor of the region, Roman Starovoit, on Telegram. The information cannot be directly and independently verified. The region borders Ukraine.