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Information reaching Kossyderrickent has it that The moment a Ukrainian drone hit and bombed two Il-76 planes at Pskov airbase during a recent mass drone attack.
The moment a Ukrainian drone hit the Il-76 aircraft at Pskov airbase during a recent mass drone attack.
The reports of bomb threats in Ukraine’s capital came as the country’s education ministry said nearly four million students were returning to school, both online and in person.
“We have received information about explosives in Kyiv’s schools,” police spokeswoman Yulia Girdvilis told AFP.
“All educational institutions are being checked by Kyiv police forces with the involvement of the State Emergency Service.”
The police force said any evacuations would be decided by schools and the police, calling on people to “stay calm.”
The outlet suggested that fuel on board one of the planes caused the other two to burn completely, but “we can assume that the target was the same critical area”.
The War Zone claimed that the bombs were dropped from drones operated by a local “dispatcher”, which is consistent with Budanov’s statement that it was a strike carried out inside Russia, probably very close to the base, and not using autonomous long-range drones.
Budanov noted on Telegram that the aggressor state used the aircraft to transport military cargo and personnel of the Russian airborne troops. “The fuel tanks and an important part of the wing spar, which are located in the upper part of the IL-76, were purposefully attacked,” he stressed.
At the same time, he did not specify whether the attack was carried out by the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine or by the underground resistance movement. He also refused to say what kind of drones were used and did not name their numbers.
Assessing the combat damage to the aircraft, Budanov said that “two were destroyed and two were seriously damaged”.
The War Zone also obtained a screenshot from the infrared camera of one of the drones used in the attack.
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