Ukraine war: Drone attack on Pskov airbase from inside Russia - Kyiv

The drone onslaught connected an airbase successful the Russian metropolis of Pskov connected Tuesday was launched from wrong Russia, Ukraine's subject quality main has said.

Kyrylo Budanov said 2 Ilyushin cargo planes were destroyed and 2 damaged. Russia says 4 were damaged.

Mr Budanov did not accidental whether the onslaught was carried retired by Ukrainian oregon Russian operatives.

Ukraine's drone attacks connected Russia hap astir daily. It had already admitted the Pskov attack.

But Mr Budanov's comments look to extremity speculation that it was caused by a long-range weapon.

On Thursday President Volodymyr Zelensky said that a Ukrainian-made limb had deed a people astatine a region of 700km. Pskov is astir 700km (434 miles) from the Ukrainian border.

"We are moving from the territory of Russia," Mr Budanov told the War Zone website connected Thursday, without saying what benignant oregon quantity of drones were used.

He said the drones targeted the tops of the craft - the determination of the substance tanks and a captious conception of the helping spar.

The damaged craft are long-range cargo planes, perfect for transporting troops and instrumentality implicit agelong distances and truthful invaluable warfare assets for Russia.

Ukrainian officials are mostly tight-lipped astir attacks wrong Russia, says BBC World Affairs analogous Paul Adams. But it seems that arsenic the run gathers pace, officials successful Kyiv are much consenting to assertion them arsenic portion of the country's warfare effort.

Meanwhile drone attacks connected respective locations successful Russia continued overnight Thursday to Friday.

Unconfirmed reports accidental a mill making physics parts for rockets successful the municipality of Lyubertsy extracurricular Moscow was hit.

However, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said successful his Telegram transmission that the drones implicit Lyubertsy were changeable down without causing immoderate harm oregon casualties.

As with erstwhile attacks successful the Moscow area, a fig of flights from Moscow airports were delayed oregon cancelled connected Friday morning.

Kursk Region Governor Roman Starovoyt said 1 residential and 1 administrative gathering had been deed successful the municipality of Kurchatov, adjacent to the Kursk atomic plant.

Ukraine is continuing its counter-offensive into Russian-occupied territory.

The Institute for the Study of War said connected Thursday that advances were made adjacent Bakhmut successful the east, and successful the westbound of Zaporizhzhia region.