Ukraine attacks the Russian bomber base fuel depot

Ukraine attacks the Russian bomber base fuel depot

Ukrainian drones attacked an oil camp deep in the Russian area that provides a military air base in the city of Engels. According to the Ukraine military, it is about 400 miles away from the border. The Ukrainian officials reported a great fire in the Crystal Combat, the oil camp, which provides fuel for the Engels-2 military airfield in the Saratow region, where the strategic bomber fleet of Russia is located.

attack on strategic goal

geolocalized pictures of CNN showed great flames that illuminated the night sky, as well as clouds of smoke that continued to rise from the explosion on Wednesday morning. The Ukrainian military said: "The destruction of the oil bearing represents great logistical challenges for the strategic aviation of the Russian occupiers and significantly reduces their ability to attack peaceful Ukrainian cities and civilian objects."

long -haul runs in use

Long -term roar attacks played an important role in almost three -year conflict between Russia and Ukraine. While the land warfare increasingly assumes, Kiev shifted the argument to airspace and achieved significant success. The aim is to disturb Russian logistics, to damage the arms of the guns and set the oil devices on fire.

earlier attacks on Saratow

The attack on Wednesday is not the first attempt by Ukraine, Saratow, a city to meet more than 600 kilometers from the Ukrainian border. However, previous attacks were mostly thwarted by Russian air defense systems. The regional governor Roman Busargin confirmed that the cities of Saratov and Engels were affected by a "massive" drone attack at night, reporting damage to an industrial site that, according to the Ukrainian military, was the oil camp at the Air Weapons.

Russian air defense reaction

The Ministry of Defense in Russia stated that his air defense has intercept 23 Ukrainian drones during the night attack, including 11 via Saratow and four over the Kursk region, where Ukraine renewed its counter -offensive after the recess of great territories last summer. The ministry left open how many Ukrainian drones have escaped the air defense systems in Saratow, but the Ukrainian military reported "numerous explosions" in the region.

Ukrainian drones and the strategy Kiev

The advisor of President Wolodymyr Selenskyj, Oleksandr Kamyshin, said that the drones used for the long -distance attack come from Ukrainian production. Last year, CNN Ukraine , which operated under the defense intelligence of Ukraine and has carried out hundreds of attacks on Russian soil since the beginning of the war.

setbacks and counter -offensive

political background position of the conflicts

The nightly attacks are made at a time when both Ukraine and Russia have increased their efforts to postpone the front lines, possibly with regard to the upcoming return of Donald Trump to the White House and the view of peace talks. Trump had previously explained that he wanted to end this war in one day without explaining how he would like to do this.

The Department of Defense Russia reported on Monday that the eastern city of Kurakhove in the Ukrainian region of Donetsk approached the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. However, Kyiv expressed doubts about the Russian claims and said the fights in Kurakhove continued on Tuesday. At the same time, Ukraine has launched a new offensive in the Kursk region, which has been holding it since her surprising advance last summer. The Ukrainian military reported on Tuesday about an attack on a Russian command post near the city of Belaya, while the fighting on several fronts in the region lasted.

The reporting was supported by CNN’s Annoa Abekah-Mensah, Gianluca Mezzoore and Duarte Mendonca.