At least three people have been killed early Monday morning in a Ukrainian drone attack on the Russian Engels air base in southern Russia.
Russian authorities have reported that air defenses shot down a drone approaching the airbase. However, debris from the aircraft has killed three soldiers.
«On December 26, at around 01:35 Moscow time, a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region,» the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement carried by the TASS news agency.
«As a result of the falling wreckage of the drone, three Russian servicemen from the technical staff who were at the airfield were fatally injured. The aviation equipment was not damaged,» the ministerial portfolio has added.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
