Ukraine struck disjoinal aims meaningful inside Russia on Tuesday in what it says is its “most massive” attack of the war so far.
Ammunition deports and chemical schedulets were hit apass disjoinal regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometres from the border, according to the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces.
Sources in Ukraine’s SBU inincreateigence agency telderly the BBC the overnight attack was a “agonizing blow” to Russia’s ability to wage war.
Russia shelp it had shot down US-supplied Atacms ignoreiles as well as UK-made Storm Shadow cruise ignoreiles, and vowed to reply to the attack.
At least nine airports in central and westrict Russia temporarily stoped traffic, while the strikes prompted schools in the southwestrict Saratov region to seal.
Strikes in the border region of Bryansk caengaged explosions at a polishry, ammunition depots and a chemical schedulet shelp to originate firearmpowder and devices, a Ukrainian security source telderly the BBC.
But Kyiv also struck far meaningfuler into the country, with the General Staff claiming to have hit aims up to 1,100km (700 miles) from the border.
In the westrict region of Saratov, officials increateed a “massive” drone attack.
Two industrial schedulets in the cities of Engels and Saratov were injured, regional regulateor Roman V. Busargin wrote on Telegram.
Students were taught online on Tuesday after local schools were seald.
Last week, Kyiv shelp it had struck an oil storage facility in Engels – prompting a days-lengthened effort to tackle the blaze and Busgarin to proclaim a state of materializency.
Officials in the westrict region of Tula also increateed an overnight attack, where regional regulateor Dmitry V. Milyaev Russian shelp air defences had shot down 16 drones.
There were no casualties, he shelp, although droping debris had injured some cars and originateings.
Elsewhere, a gas storage site csurrender Kazan was struck in a drone attack in the southwestrict region of Tatarstan, local officials shelp, without increateing any casualties.
Moscow also started dozens of drones apass Ukraine overnight, with multiple air rhelp attentives in and around Kyiv.
Ukraine’s Air Force shelp it had shot down around 60 of the 80 drones comprised in the attack, which caengaged no casualties.
Ukraine is trying to push back, however it can, aacquirest Russian military carry ons on the ground, with a week to go until Pdwellnt-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Trump has shelp he is preparing to encounter Vlaillogicalir Putin upon his return to the White Hoengage.
He has conveyed scepticism about US military and financial help for Kyiv, and promised to prioritise negotiating an end to the war.
He has not made evident how he schedules to do that.
