Ukraine war: Drone hits Russia oil depot, Moscow accuses Kyiv of 'nuclear terrorism' at Zaporizhzhia
A drone strike hit a third Russian airfield on Tuesday from a drone strike, a day after Ukraine proved its capacity to target military bases deep into Russian air space.
The latest attack was confirmed by officials in the Russian city of Kursk, who released pictures of smoke rising from the airfield in the early morning hours of Tuesday. The governor said the strike hit an oil storage tank, but there were no casualties.
Strikes on Monday, which Russia attributed to Ukraine, hit the Engels air base, which hosts Russia's fleet of giant strategic bombers, and in Ryazan, where Russian authorities said three service people died. Moscow says the strikes were conducted using Soviet-era drones.
Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the strikes but has celebrated them. The New York Times, citing a senior Ukrainian official, said the drones involved in Monday's attacks were launched from Ukrainian territory, and at least one of the strikes was made with the help of special forces close to the base.
Russia's defence ministry claims to have struck Ukraine's military command system on Monday with a massive high-precision strike, as reported by the country's RIA news agency. The report could not be independently verified.
Ukraine has not confirmed the strike, but the country's military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov said on Tuesday that Moscow's stocks are coming to an end, though he added that the country has enough high-precision missiles to conduct several more big air strikes on Ukraine before it runs out.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has accused Kyiv of "nuclear terrorism," saying that Ukraine was continuing to shell the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant to deliberately create the threat of a possible nuclear
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