Ukraine has launched multiple drone attacks on Russia, making it the highest threat from the smaller nation, since the 18-month war.
The drones were launched at different hours of the day and they were aimed a six regions, with one of them hitting an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia.
That particular drone damaged four Il-76 military transport planes, which can carry heavy machinery and troops, according to the Russian news agency.
The nighttime drone attacks lasted more than four hours, officials said, although no injuries were reported.
Moscow’s forces also hit Kyiv with drones and missiles during the night, and the attack killed two people.
Sergei Popko, the head of Kyiv’s military administration, described Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian capital as the biggest since the spring, even as Ukraine’s air defenses shot down more than 20 drones and missiles.
Ukraine has recently stepped up its aggression inside Russia, even as it has chased a counteroffensive against Russian strongholds in eastern and southern Ukraine.
The Ukrainian drones also targeted the Oryol region, about 400 kilometers south of Moscow, as well as Ryazan and Kaluga, which are both 200 kilometers south of the Russian capital, and Bryansk, which borders Ukraine.
The Russian military said its forces repelled an attack by a sea drone near Sevastopol, the port city in the annexed Crimean Peninsula that is the base of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
