Ukraine’s forces launched a massive drone attack on four airfields deep inside Russia that were home to strategic bombers used in air raids, officials said on Sunday, in possibly their most audacious attack of the war.
“At this point, more than 40 aircraft have reportedly been hit,” an official told the Financial Times, adding that drones struck four Russian military airfields in “one co-ordinated operation” thousands of kilometres away from the front line.
Aircraft were “burning” at the Belaya airfield, located near Sredny in south-eastern Siberia about 5,500km east of the Ukrainian border; at the Olenya air base on the Kola Peninsula near Murmansk; Dyagilevo air base 200km south-east of Moscow; and Ivanovo airfield, 300km north-east of the Russian capital, the official said.