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A Ukrainian drone attack has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia, said the Ukraine security service on Sunday, while Moscow has stopped Ukraine with missiles and drones A few hours before a new series of discussion on direct peace in Istanbul.
A military official, who spoke with the Associated Press under the guise of anonymity to disclose operational details, said that the large -scale attack had taken more than a year and a half to execute and was personally supervised by the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The military source said it was an “extremely complex” operation, involving the smuggling of a first -person view, or FPV, drones in Russia, where they were then placed in mobile wooden houses.
“Later, the drones were hidden under the roofs of these houses when they were already placed on trucks.
Images of the social media shared by the Russian media seemed to show that drones rising from the interior containers while other panels were rejected on the road. A clip seemed to show men climbing on a truck to try to stop drones.
The drones struck 41 planes stationed in military aerodromes on Sunday afternoon, including A-50, TU-95 and TU-22M, the official said. Moscow has already used long-range Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-22 bombers to launch missiles in Ukraine, while A-50s are used to coordinate targets and detect aerial defenses and guided missiles.
The Ukraine security service said that the operation, which it had named “Web”, had destroyed 34% of the Russian air missile fleeting fleets with damages estimated at $ 7 billion. The complaint could not be checked independently.
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The Ministry of Defense of Russia in a statement confirmed the attacks, which damaged the planes and launched fires on the air bases of the Irkutsk region, more than 4,000 kilometers (2,500 miles) of Ukraine, as well as the Murmansk region in the North, he said. The strikes were also pushed back to the Amur region in the Far East of Russia and in the Western regions of Ivanovo and Ryazan, the ministry said.
The attack came the same day that Zelenskyy said that Ukraine would send a delegation to Istanbul for a new series of direct peace talks with Russia on Monday.
In a statement on Telegram, Zelenskyy said that the Minister of Defense, Rustem Umerov, will lead the Ukrainian delegation. “We do everything to protect our independence, our state and our people,” said Zelenskyy.
Ukrainian officials had already called the Kremlin to provide a promise Memorandum defining its position By finishing the war before the meeting. Moscow said that she would share her memorandum during the talks.
Also Sunday, Russia’s best investigation organization said explosions had caused Two bridges to collapse And derailed two trains in western Russia overnight, killing seven in one of the incidents and injuring tens more. Russian officials, however, did not say what had caused the explosions and the word “explosions” was then withdrawn from a press release from the investigation committee.
Russia launched the largest number of drones – 472 – on Ukraine since the large -scale invasion in February 2022 on Sunday, the Air Force of Ukraine said.
Russian forces also launched seven missiles alongside the drone dam, said Yuriy Ignat, head of Air Force communications. Earlier Sunday, the army of Ukraine said that at least 12 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed and more than 60 injured in a Russian missile strike on army training unit.
The strike took place at 12:50 p.m., according to the press release, stressing that no training rally of staff was held at the time.
Ukrainian army commander Mykhailo Drapatyi later Sunday, submitted his resignation after the attack. He was a respected commander whose leaders saw Ukraine regain land on the eastern front for the first time since kyiv’s counter-offensive in 2022.
The training unit was located at the rear of the active front line of 1,000 kilometers (620 miles), where Russian recognition and strike drones can strike. Ukraine’s forces lack troops and take additional precautions to avoid mass rallies, because the sky through the front line is saturated with Russian drones in search of targets.
The Russian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it had taken control of the village of Oleksiivka in the northern Sumy region of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Sumy authorities ordered compulsory evacuations in 11 other colonies on Saturday while Russian forces have stable gains in the region.
Speaking on Saturday, the Ukraine army leader Oleksandr Syrskyi said that Russian forces concentrated their main offensive efforts on Pokrovsk, Totretsk and Lyman in the Donetsk region, as well as in the border area of Sumy.
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