'Incident' at Russia's Engels air base investigated, no damage to civil infrastructure - local gover
Source: Reuters
An incident at the Engels air base in Russia's Saratov region was being investigated but there was no damage to civilian infrastructure, a local governor said, after media reports of blasts at the base earlier on Monday.
Ukrainian and Russian media outlets reported that blasts were heard after midnight at the Engels air base, hundreds of kilometres (miles) from the frontlines in Ukraine.
"There were no emergencies in residential areas of the (Engels) city," Roman Busargin, the governor of the region, said on the Telegram messaging app.
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The air base, near the city of Saratov, about 730 km (450 miles) southeast of Moscow, was hit on Dec. 5 in what Russia said was Ukrainian drone attacks on two Russian air bases that day.
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/blasts-reported-russias-engels-air-base-online-media-2022-12-26/
Merry Christmas, Vlad
Tetrachloride
(7,903 posts)Tomconroy
(7,611 posts)But not military infrastructure.
How air defense?
More_Cowbell
(2,192 posts)There appears to have been a second attack tonight.
The Ukrainians are getting pretty far into Russia.
If the Russians are wiling to admit they lost 3 soldiers and no plans, it was probably 10 soldiers and lots of planes.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,069 posts)yaesu
(8,020 posts)oldsoftie
(12,668 posts)be nice if somehow someone could get a rocket into the Kremlin.
Beastly Boy
(9,570 posts)that Russia took the necessary measures to protect civilian infrastructure in the vicinity of an airport that houses nuclear capable strategic bombers that was successfully attacked a couple of weeks ago damaging at least one of the precious bombers.
Great job, Russian strategic military security (he-he)!