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Russia announces Ukraine’s attack on military airfield

The Russian Ministry of Defense announced Saturday that a Ukrainian drone had attacked a military airfield in the Novgorod region, and that a similar attack had been thwarted in Moscow and its vicinities.

The attack, which targeted a military airfield about 400 kilometers from Moscow, resulted in a fire and damage to a stationary warplane, the ministry said in a statement.

There were no casualties as a result of the attack, the statement stressed, which it described as a "terrorist attack".

Ukrainian forces also tried to target facilities located in Crimea with a modified S-200 missile, it pointed out.

Russian air defense forces were able to intercept and shoot down a drone in the suburbs of Moscow, which did not result in casualties, the ministry said.

Source: Kuwait News Agency