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Managers say that several military bases deep in Russia have been subjected to drone attacks in a large Ukrainian operation before peace talks Due to starting Istanbul on Monday.
The Russian Defense Ministry said that Ukraine had launched drone strikes targeting Russian military aerodromes in five regions on Sunday, which made several planes set fire.
The attacks took place in the regions of Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur. The air defenses have pushed the attacks in all regions except two – Murmansk and Irkutsk, the ministry said.
“In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, the launch of FPV drones from an area near the aerodromes resulted in a fire of several aircraft,” said the ministry.
The fires were extinguished and no victim was reported. Some people involved in the attacks had been held, said the ministry.
Ukraine’s security service said on Sunday that it had struck Russian military planes with a combined value of $ 7 billion in a wave of drone strikes on the Russian air bases thousands of kilometers behind the front lines.
“7 billion dollars: this is the estimated cost of the strategic aviation of the enemy, which was affected today following the SBU special operation,” said the agency in an article on social networks.
The targets included the Belaya air base in Irkutsk, about 4,300 km (2,700 miles) from the Ukrainian border and the Olenya air base in the south of Murmansk, about 1,800 km (1,100 miles) of Ukraine.
“According to witnesses in the field and local officials, these drones were launched from sites near the air bases.
“This is the largest attack we have seen in one day through several military air bases in Russia since the start of the war in February 2022,” said Jabbari, noting that the air bases are home to Russia’s strategic air bombers, which have been used to attack targets across Ukraine in the last three years.
Earlier Sunday, several local media reports in Ukraine, including those of the Ukrrinform state agency, cited a source in the SBU saying that the coordinated attacks in Russia “aimed to destroy the enemy bombers far from the front”.
They said that the operation had been carried out by SBU using drones deeply smuggling in Russia and hidden inside the trucks. At least 41 Russian heavy bombers with four airlines were affected, according to reports, adding that the operation, nicknamed “Spiderweb”, had been prepared for more than a year and a half, and it was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodyr Zelenskyy.
John Hendren of Al Jazeera, postponing from kyiv, said that it was “a bold strike, a strike that Ukraine has been waiting for a long time and that it is patiently, and it occurred after Russian air strikes in Ukraine have accelerated considerably in recent weeks”.
Meanwhile, at least seven people were killed and 69 injured when a road bridge in the Russian Bryansk region, neighboring Ukraine, was exploded While a traveler was headed for Moscow crossed him with 388 people on board.
No one has yet claimed responsibility. Russian officials said they were treating the incident as an “act of terrorism” but had not immediately cornered Ukraine.
The developments occurred while Russia also said that it had progressed more deeply in the Ukraine Sumy region, and as an open source pro-Ukrainian cards showed that Russia took 450 km2 (174 kmq) of Ukrainian land in May, its quickest monthly advance in at least six months.
Moscow has launched 472 drones to Ukraine overnight, said Ukraine Air Force, the highest nocturnal total of war so far. Russia also launched seven missiles, Air Force said.
Both parties increased their attacks As Ukraine has confirmed, he will send a delegation to Istanbul led by his Minister of Defense Rustem Umerov for interviews on Monday with Russian officials. Turkiye organizes the meeting, which was stimulated by the push of American president Donald Trump for a quick agreement to end the three -year war.
Zelenskyy, who previously expressed skepticism about the seriousness of the Russian party in Monday’s meeting, said that he had defined the position of the Ukrainian delegation on talks.
The priorities included “a complete and unconditional ceasefire” and the return of prisoners and kidnapped children, he said on social networks.
Russia said it had formulated its own peace conditions, but has refused to disclose them in advance. Russian President Vladimir Putin also excluded a Turkish proposal for the meeting to be held at the level of the leaders.
