On Monday morning, Ukrainian drones struck the Russian bomber bases at Dyagilevo and Engels, respectively 100 and 400 miles southeast of Moscow—and both nearly 300 miles from the Ukrainian border.
The nearly simultaneous drone raids damaged two bombers, killed three Russian personnel and wounded four,Photos that circulated online in the hours after the attack confirm the damage to one bomber at Dyagilevo, a twin-engine, swing-wing Tupolev Tu-22M3. It was the supersonic Tu-22M3s that, back in the spring,The Russian air force has plenty of bombers left: 60 Tu-22Ms, 60 subsonic Tupolev Tu-95s and 16 supersonic Tupolev Tu-160s.
The Kremlin claimed its air-defenses intercepted the incoming drones. The damage and casualties were the result of “the fall and explosion of fragments,” it alleged. That may be true, but it doesn’t make the Ukrainian raid any less successful. Wrecked bombers and dead troops don’t care if they were hit by wreckage or an intact drone.
The raids on Dyagilevo and Engels aren’t isolated incidents. The Ukrainian armed forces have been striking Russian air bases deep inside Russia since the first month of Russia’s wider war on Ukraine starting in February.in occupied Crimea in August, knocked out several Russian navy fighter-bombers.
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