Attacks on several airbases within Russia cause panic

Washington. America is not helping or encouraging in any way to attack Ukraine from inside Russia. The US State Department said on Tuesday that the US is not providing the necessary weapons or equipment to attack Ukraine beyond its borders. However, Ukraine has clearly demonstrated a new capability to strike hundreds of kilometers into Russian airspace with airstrikes on 3 airbases hundreds of kilometers inside Russia.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price told reporters that ‘we are not enabling Ukraine to attack beyond its borders’. We are not even encouraging Ukraine to attack beyond its borders. Ned Price also said that it has not been confirmed that these attacks were carried out by Ukraine. Price said that the US has not provided Ukraine with weapons that are being used for attacks inside Russia. On the other hand, Moscow said that three of its soldiers were killed and four were injured in the attacks on its two airbases on Monday. Along with this, two warplanes were also damaged. While on Tuesday another drone attack on a third Russian airbase in Kursk set fire to an oil depot.

This airbase is close to Ukraine. The government in Kyiv did not directly take responsibility for these attacks, but their success was celebrated nonetheless. On Tuesday, officials in the Russian city of Kursk, about 90 km (60 miles) north of the border with Ukraine, released pictures of black smoke over an airbase. It was told that an oil storage tank caught fire due to the drone strike but there were no casualties. Significantly, a day before, there were drone attacks on Engels Air Base hundreds of kilometers from Ukraine and in Ryazan, the base of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet. Ryazan is only a few hours away from Moscow.