KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine sent waves of drones deep into western Russia in nighttime attacks that lasted more than four hours and struck military assets, Russian officials and media reports said Wednesday.
The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes, which can carry heavy machinery and troops, Russian state news agency Tass reported, citing emergency officials.
Aerial attacks on Russia have escalated in recent months as the Ukrainian military pursues a counteroffensive to drive Moscow's forces out of its territory. Ukraine has increasingly targeted Russia’s military assets behind the front lines in the invaded country’s east and south. Smoke from a massive fire billowed over the city of Pskov, the region's namesake capital, images posted on social media showed. Videos of showed loud bangs and flashes punctuating the night, along with the crackle of air defense systems and tracers climbing into the dark sky.
Three main Moscow region airports — Sheremetyevo, Vnukovo and Domodedovo — temporarily halted incoming and outgoing flights. “If you look carefully at the news recently, in general, every day there are news about long-range drones that hit various targets both in occupied Crimea and in the territory of Russia,” Fedorov told The Associated Press in a recent interview. ”So in this regard, let’s say, that more or less a mass production of these drones has appeared.”
Russia launched Shahed exploding drones at the city from various directions and then followed with missiles from Tu-95MS strategic aircraft, Popko said. It was unclear how many were launched, but Popko called the attack the biggest on the capital since the spring.
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