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Again

air alerts

sounded in many parts of Ukraine.

Authorities urged civilians to take shelter.

But it seems that this time the Ukrainians have struck first.

The head of the Ukrainian air force confirmed in the morning that Russia was launching a

new wave of missiles on Ukrainian soil

, just hours after what appears to be a

Ukrainian air raid on Russian territory

.

The boldest to date.

Some Russian media reported on Monday morning of a Ukrainian drone attack on the Engels base (near the Russian city of Saratov) that caused

damage to two Tu-95 strategic bombers

that are used to launch cruise missiles in cities. ukrainian

This Saratov airfield is located more than 700 kilometers from Ukraine.

According to Russian media such as the Astra and Baza channels, a drone exploded on the runway where, according to satellite images shared by the Ukrainian government a few days ago, several bombers were lined up ready to participate in what the Russian Executive insists on calling an operation. special military.

It seems that several drones entered the Russian skies overnight to hit where the bombers are taking off that are destroying Ukrainian cities.

A prominent adviser to the Ukrainian president,

Mikhailo Podoliak

, has hinted that Kiev is behind this attack: "The Earth is round: Galileo discovered it. Astronomy was not studied in the Kremlin, giving preference to court astrologers. Otherwise , they would know: if something is launched into the airspace of other countries, sooner or later those unknown flying objects will return to the starting point," the counselor wrote on his Twitter account.

The Ukrainian government is often ambiguous when it comes to attacks outside its borders.

In August, at least seven Russian warplanes were destroyed by explosions at a Russian airbase on the southwestern coast of Crimea, the Russian-annexed Ukrainian peninsula.

Then Ukraine attacked the Crimean Bridge.

The RIA Novosti news agency also reported an attack at a Russian military airport near Ryazan.

Three people died when a tanker truck exploded, according to Russian state media.

Attack further than ever

The Engels base is about 730 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

482 kilometers separate it from the Ukrainian border,

a distance too great for any weapons used by Ukraine to date

.

The alleged attack comes hours after the Ukrainian state company Ukroboronprom announced that it has carried out a series of successful tests of an unmanned aircraft with a range of 1,000 kilometers.

It is a Ukrainian drone that can carry up to

75 kilos of explosives

.

We promised to build it before the end of this year and we are trying to fulfill that promise," said Ukroboronprom spokeswoman

Natalia Sad

.

If it is that drone, it seems that the invention works.

A Defense Department source confirmed that the Pentagon had seen evidence of an explosion at Engels' base,

The New York Times

reported .

Russia feels more and more the war in her house.

Roman Busargin

, the governor of the Saratov region, issued a statement urging residents to remain calm as news of a huge explosion at the airbase spread through social media.

Dimitri Peskov, a Kremlin spokesman, said he was aware of the reports about the two incidents but had "no precise information" and could not comment.

He confirmed that President

Vladimir Putin

had also been updated on these news, Russian state news agency Tass reported.

The starting point of the bombs

The choice of the base is not accidental.

Engels is one of two strategic bomber bases hosting

Russia's nuclear bombers

(the other is in the Amur region in the Russian Far East).

Indeed, just a few hours after the explosions, Ukrainian officials said more than a dozen Russian bombers had taken off from Engels airbase for Ukraine, where they launched missiles to destroy more civilian infrastructure.

This time Russian strikes killed two people, destroying homes in the southeast and causing major power outages, authorities said.

Kirilo Timoshenko

, deputy head of the presidential office, said the missiles had hit buildings in Zaporizhia, a region located in the southeast.

Unconfirmed images circulating on social media showed

smoke billowing south of Kiev in the vicinity of a power plant

.

The water supply in the Odessa region stopped because all pumping stations and reserve lines lost power.

The same thing happened in Mikolaiv, the neighboring region.

fighting in the east

Fighting is the norm throughout the eastern part of the country, with new victims also in the occupied areas.

Three residential buildings of the Donbas State Institute in the eastern Lugansk region were hit by Ukrainian fire on Monday, killing nine people, the region's Russian-imposed governor and Russian state news agency TASS said.

The facilities were being used to

house refugees and construction workers

, according to the official imposed by the Russian authorities.

Both sides in Ukraine reported casualties in other attacks overnight.

In Kryvyi Rih, one of the largest cities in southern Ukraine, Russian rockets killed one person and wounded three shortly after midnight.

In the southern Kherson region, where Ukraine forced Russian forces to retreat across the river last month, Governor

Yaroslav Yanushevych

said further Russian shelling had killed two people in the past 24 hours.

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