Ukrainian drones attack three Russian air bases – damage supersonic bombers, source says

About 160 kilometers southeast of Moscow, the sounds of at least three explosions were heard at the Diaghilev air base, which serves as a training center for the Russian military’s strategic bomber fleet, around 6 a.m. on Saturday, July 27.

And in the same Ryazan region, Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) also attacked an oil field with kamikaze drones, a source in Ukrainian intelligence told the Kyiv Post on Saturday afternoon.

A few hours later, the Astra Telegram channel published a video allegedly showing a robotic aircraft in Ryazan Oblast, as well as photos of a column of black smoke rising from the Diaghilev air base.

One person who posted on social media from his home in the city of Ryazan, which was “just a stone’s throw” from the air base, said: “My window was open, I almost peed my pants from the noise.”

But Diaghilev – an attractive target for the Ukrainians with its Tu-95MS, Tu-22M3, Tu-134UBL and Il-78 aircraft and its aircraft repair factory – was only the first of three Russian air bases attacked by Ukrainian drones.

About two hours after the explosions in Diaghilev and 549 kilometers away, the HUR struck again, this time hitting the Engels air base in Saratov Oblast, where Russia has stationed strategic bombers used to attack targets in Ukraine.

In both cases, the results of the attacks need to be clarified, the source told the Kyiv Post.

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However, according to the source, the Tu-22M3 supersonic long-range bomber and missile carrier was disabled during Ukraine’s attack on the third airfield – Olenya, an air base near Finland in the northern Murmansk Oblast.

Meanwhile, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed it had shot down at least twelve kamikaze drones over the Kursk, Belgorod, Rostov, Bryansk and Lipetsk regions.