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Kyiv/Moscow, June 2 (Xinhua) — The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said Sunday that 34 percent of strategic cruise missile carriers at Russia’s main airfields were hit in an attack carried out on Sunday. The Russian Defense Ministry, meanwhile, said several aircraft caught fire.
According to a message published by the SBU on Facebook, the estimated cost of the damaged strategic aviation is about 7 billion US dollars.
The Interfax-Ukraine news agency, citing its sources, reported that drones struck four military airfields on Russian territory: Belaya in the Irkutsk region, Dyagilevo in the Ryazan region, Olenya in the Murmansk region, and Ivanovo in the Ivanovo region.
According to the agency, more than forty A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 aircraft, which Russia used to strike Ukrainian territory, were hit as a result of the attack.
The Russian Defense Ministry, in turn, reported that the Ukrainian side committed a terrorist attack using FPV drones against airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. All terrorist attacks at military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled.
According to the Russian military department, several aircraft units caught fire in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions as a result of FPV drones being launched from the territory located in the immediate vicinity of airfields. The fires have been extinguished. There are no casualties among military personnel or civilian personnel. Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks have been detained.
Irkutsk Region Governor Igor Kobzev reported on his Telegram channel that the first drone attack in Siberia took place in the region on a military unit in the village of Sredniy. “At the moment, it is known that this was a drone attack on a military unit in the village of Sredniy. The first in Siberia. One drop was on an old building in Novomaltinsk. The exact number of UAVs has not yet been counted. Operational and security services have been deployed to the scene: FSB officers, the Ministry of Emergency Situations, and Russian National Guard fighters. They set up an operational headquarters. I also went to the Usolsky District,” I. Kobzev wrote. –0–