Ukrainian drones destroy 40 military aircraft deep inside Russia
發佈日期: 2025-06-02 20:46
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Ukraine launched drone attacks on Russian military airfields, destroying more than 40 planes deep in Russia's territory.
But drone attacks in the Kursk and Voronezh regions sparked residential fires and disrupted traffic on a major highway.
This happened just hours before a new round of direct peace talks between the two countries are due to take place in Istanbul.
A video released by Ukrainian Security Service shows a Ukrainian drone attack that has destroyed more than 40 Russian planes deep in Russia's territory.
The furthest site, Belaya air base in Russia's Irkutsk region, is more than 4,000 kilometres from Ukraine.
The attack took more than a year and a half to execute and was personally supervised by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to a Ukrainian security official. The operation involved the smuggling of drones to Russia and launched from wooden houses that were placed on trucks.
Zelenskyy praised his Security Service for a brilliant operation on Russian military targets. He said that 34 percent of the strategic cruise missile carriers stationed at air bases in multiple Russian regions were hit.
This as explosions caused two bridges to collapse,derailing two trains in western Russia overnight. Officials did not say what caused the blasts.
The first bridge in the Bryansk region on the border with Ukraine collapsed on top of a passenger train, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. The train driver was among those killed.
Hours later, a second train derailed when the bridge beneath it collapsed in the nearby Kursk region,which also borders Ukraine.
Russia's top criminal investigation agency said it would be investigating the incidents as potential acts of terrorism.
Meanwhile, one person was killed in a Russian attack on the Dniprovsky district of Ukraine's Kherson region Sunday.
Local authorities say a grocery store was hit as shoppers and staff were inside.
This as a sweeping U.S. sanctions bill could be the West's last chance to choke off the Kremlin's war economy, according to Senator Lindsay Graham speaking in Paris: "We saw credible evidence of a summer, early fall invasion, a new offensive by Putin. He's playing the game at the peace table. He's preparing for more war and I think the Senate is fed up with Putin. The American people see Putin as unreasonable. They see Ukraine is trying. President Trump has made that distinction real. So, the Senate and the House of Representatives in the next two weeks will be moving forward with a sanction bill that's bone-crushing."
