'Ukraine drone attack' hits ANOTHER Russian airbase trends now
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Flames are today engulfing a Russian airbase near the border with Ukraine after a third suspected drone strike in just two days.
Oil tankers at a base near the city of Kursk, around 60 miles from the border, were on fire and streaming smoke into the sky early Tuesday morning.
The cause of the blaze is currently unknown but it comes just a day after two similar blasts damaged airbases in Saratov and Ryazan, which the Russian ministry of defence blamed on Ukrainian drones.
Those strikes, on Engels-2 airfield and Dyagilevo airbase, damaged two nuclear-capable bombers that were thought to be preparing for an attack on Ukraine, killed three ground crew and injured two more.
Russian military bloggers have suggested the attacks were carried out using a repurposed Tupolev Tu-141 Strizh - a Cold War-era Soviet reconnaissance drone - but these have not been confirmed.
Ukraine rarely confirms strikes on Russian territory, but is thought to be behind dozens of explosions on fuel depots and ammo dumps supplying Russian forces fighting in the country's east.
Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod - three regions that immediately border Ukraine and have been used as a staging point for assaults - have all been hit multiple times.
It has never been confirmed how those attacks were
