As a result, night attack on Engels airfield Three Russian soldiers were killed, the Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed.
They were mortally wounded by shrapnel from a Ukrainian drone shot down on approach to the facility, the report says. "The aircraft was not damaged", the department claims. Radio host Sergei Mardan provides unofficial data about 4 more wounded.
“I believe there will be even less daylight in Ukraine,” predicts Kyiv lawyer Valentin Rybin.
Political scientist Igor Shatrov, in turn, notes that the emergency occurred on Military Air Defense Day.
“A special military operation, in which combat operations are often conducted in urban environments, poses new challenges for military science, in particular, for developers of air defense systems. Modern weapons, of course, must go astray far away on approach to the target. The fall of their debris and the debris of the missiles that destroy them into the urban environment is often no less tragic than hitting the target. It is missile debris that most often hits objects in Belgorod. I am telling you the simple truth. But it’s hard to keep silent about this on Military Air Defense Day,” comments Shatrov.