Ukrainian drones up to Siberia: 40 Russian bombers destroyed. Zelensky: 'The longest-range operation'
Talks tomorrow at 12 noon in the Turkish capital. Attacks on the Kiev region and the Ukrainian capital. Two bridges collapse in Russia due to 'illegal interference'
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The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, congratulated the head of the Sbu, Vasyl Malyuk, on the 'absolutely brilliant result' achieved with the drone strikes against Russian airfields and bombers in the heart of the country. "Ukraine is defending itself," Zelensky wrote in X, "and rightly so: we are doing everything to make Russia feel the need to end this war. Russia started this war, Russia must end it. Glory to Ukraine!"
The president of Ukraine referred to what happened today. It is indeed a firestorm that accompanies the delegations from Moscow and Kiev en route to Istanbul, where a new round of talks is scheduled to reach peace after three years of conflict. Missiles, drones, acts of sabotage and a complex and deadly attack by Ukrainian 007s against some Russian military airports have marked the last hours of the battle, which seems to be raging and continues to claim victims. In the operation against Russian airfields thousands of kilometres from the front, '41 bombers were destroyed', Ukrainian intelligence claimed, quantifying the damage at 'more than two billion dollars'.
Moscow had to admit that 'a number of planes' were hit by a swarm of drones in particular at airports in the regions of Irkutsk, in central Siberia over 8,000 kilometres from the Russian capital, and Murmansk, in Russia's remote northwest a stone's throw from the Finnish border. Further 'terrorist attacks', as the Defence Ministry branded them, 'were repelled' at military airports in three other regions, Ivanovo, Ryazan and even Amur, in the Russian Far East.
The operation by the Ukrainian 007, supervised directly by the head of the Sbu, Vasyl Malyuk, began a year and a half ago: numerous Fpv drones, those normally on the market but armed with explosives, were hidden under the canopies of prefabricated wooden house modules. Loaded onto trucks, they subsequently arrived in Russia in the vicinity of the targets. At x time the armada went into action, led by personnel on site, hitting the military sites. "Don't believe the Russians when they say they have arrested the perpetrators", as was actually the case, was the message from the 007s in Kiev, hinting that special forces already safely in place had gone into action.
Moscow also had to deal with two sabotage incidents: a road bridge exploded in the Bryansk region, collapsing onto a railway and causing a train to derail. At least seven people died, over 70 were injured, some in serious condition. Another convoy, a goods train without passengers, derailed in Kursk while passing over a blown-up railway bridge.
