Ukrainian drones attack a Russian air base, killing three

The Russian authorities reported raids by “saboteurs”; Ukraine has not commented on the incident, but has requested that the Russians be excluded from the United Nations.

Video obtained by Reuters/Maxar Technologies/ReutersRussia claims to have intercepted Ukrainian drones on its soil

Drone attack on an air base in Russia It left at least three people dead on Monday, 26, the Russian authorities, who also denounced the raids of Ukrainian “saboteurs” and claimed to have shot down a drone near a Russian air base hundreds of kilometers from the “front”, reported on Monday. Run like this in one month. “As a result of the falling wreckage of a drone, three Russian technical officers who were at the base were fatally wounded,” the defense ministry was quoted by TASS news agency as saying. The Ukrainian authorities have so far refrained from commenting on these allegations. The air base had already been attacked on December 5. Russian news agencies also indicated that the air defense shot down on Sunday night 25 Ukrainian drones that were flying towards Engels Air Base, which includes Russian strategic bombers. The Russian Security Service (FSB) said that the group of “saboteurs” who tried to infiltrate the Bryansk region were carrying weapons and explosives. In a video released by the Russian news agency RIA Novosti, four bloodied corpses appeared, dressed in winter camouflage uniforms and surrounded by weapons.

Ten months ago, Russia launched a “special operation” in Ukraine In recent months, it has been subjected to a counter-attack, in addition to a series of attacks on military bases and important infrastructure in recent months. On Monday, Ukraine called for Russia’s exclusion from the United Nations. Ukraine invites its member states United nations This deprives the Russian Federation of its status as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and excludes it from the UN as a whole, ”wrote the country’s head of diplomacy Dmytro Kuleba. However, this demand has no chance of success, since Moscow has veto power in the Security Council, of which it is a permanent member.The Russian authorities hold the Ukrainians responsible for the attacks on its territory, but Ukraine has never confirmed its responsibility for the explosion, but the Russian president, Russian President Vladimir PutinSince then, it has doubled down on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, leaving millions of Ukrainians without electricity or heat in the middle of winter.