How did the attack that shook the country in recent days come about?military airport Russian from Pskov? For the Head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, Kyrylo BudanovThere is no doubt: the attack on the town, which is just a few kilometers from the border with Estonia, was launched by Area from Russia. According to Kiev, there was no attack from outside and everything started within the borders controlled by the Kremlin.
The attack on the Russian airport
Budanov spoke in particular about the attack on Pskov airport, which took place on the night of Wednesday to Thursday. “We work on the territory of Russia” he said, as reported by Rbc-Ukraine. However, the senior Ukrainian official did not specify whether the raid was carried out by Kyiv’s defense intelligence or, on the contrary, by pro-Ukrainian Russian partisans.
Budanov himself also did not clarify which ones and how many Drones were used in the attack, stating that two Russian aircraft were “destroyed and two were seriously damaged.” The Kiev 007 had limited itself to specifying the four transport aircraft Ilyushin Il-76 The Russian Air Force attack on the Pskov military airport was “destroyed”. Russia, on the other hand, spoke of four damaged and zero destroyed aircraft.
Budanov’s words
One might think that the episode described is one of the many lightning attacks after the outbreak of war. In reality, the fact that Budanov emphasized that the attack came from inside Russia suggests that Kiev may have somehow actually managed to achieve “that.” War” at home of the Kremlin. “We work from the territory of Russia,” Budanov told the War Zone website.
The Russian aircraft damaged in Pskov are long-range cargo planes, ideal for transporting troops and equipment over long distances and are therefore valuable military vehicles for Russia. As the BBC noted, Ukrainian officials are generally very secretive about attacks inside Russia. However, it appears that as the pace of the counteroffensive increases, Kiev is increasingly willing to exploit the mysterious attacks as part of its war effort.
War at home
Ukraine’s drone war against Russia is now something commonplace. One would have been hit in the last few hours Factory which produces electronic components for rockets in the city Lyubertsy, near Moscow. The mayor of the capital, Sergei SobyaninHowever, he said on his Telegram channel that the drones were shot down over Lyubertsy without causing any damage or casualties.
As with previous attacks in the Moscow area, there were numerous delays or cancellations of flights from Moscow airports on Friday morning. The governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt, A residential and an administrative building were hit in the city Kurchatovnear the Kursk nuclear power plant.