The attack comes after the United States and Germany recently authorized Ukraine to attack some targets on Russian soil with the long-range weapons they supply to kyiv.
Ukraine has attacked Russia this Saturday damaging your most modern hunting, the Su-57. According to kyiv, his forces reached a multipurpose fighter aircraft stationed at the Akhtubinsk air base, in the south of the country, almost 600 kilometers from the front line. The distance from the Ukrainian airfield suggests that the attack was carried out with drones.
The attack occurred after its Western allies, the United States and Germany, allowed Ukraine use their weapons for limited attacks inside Russiaa permit that has created a dilemma within NATO. Ukraine has already used American weapons to attack inside Russia under guidelines recently approved by President Joe Biden that allow use of American weapons for the limited purpose of defending Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second largest city.
The main military intelligence service of Kiev shared satellite photos that it said showed the aftermath of the attack. If confirmed, it would be Ukraine’s first known successful attack against a Su-57 fighter jet. a twin-engine stealth fighter praised as the most advanced military aircraft in Moscow. In one photo, black soot marks and small craters can be seen dotting a strip of concrete around the parked plane.
Moscow has not commented on the attack. For its part, the Russian Defense Ministry said its forces shot down three Ukrainian drones in the Astrakhan region, where the Akhtubinsk airstrip is located.
Since the full-scale invasion of Moscow more than two years ago, kyiv has increased domestic production of drones and used them to attack inside Russiaincluding a gas terminal near St. Petersburg, located more than 1,000 kilometers north of the Ukrainian border.
Elsewhere, Ukrainian forces continued attacking border regions with drones from southern Russia, according to local Russian officials.
three drones They reached the province of Belgorod late Saturday, damaging a power line and bursting windows, but causing no casualties, according to Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. The Russian Defense Ministry said another drone was shot down over the nearby Bryansk region.
In the Ukrainian provinces located on the front line of combat, Russian bombings killed at least three civilians and injured at least nine others on Saturday and overnight, regional authorities reported. A man was killed and two women were injured in the village of Khotimla, in the Ukrainian region of Kharkiv (northeast), where shelling damaged the local school, a town hall building and a store, according to Governor Oleh Syniehubov.
Ukrainian troops continue to fight intense fighting in the area to try to repel Russian forces, following a weeks-long offensive by Moscow that raised fears for Kharkiv and prompted a wave of civilian evacuations.
