Russia responds with ever-larger strikes on Ukraine’s cities and scales up drone and missile production.
Ukraine has kept up the pressure on Russian airfields and war production in the past week after its highly successful Operation Spiderweb, which destroyed Moscow’s strategic bombers on June 1.
Russia responded with its biggest air raids on Ukrainian cities, causing dozens of civilian casualties and introducing a jet-powered version of the Iranian-designed Shahed drone.
On Friday, Ukraine struck at least three fuel tanks at Engels airbase 500km (310 miles) southeast of Moscow. Fires were also reported at Dyagilevo airbase, 170km (105 miles) from the capital. Both had been targeted in Operation Spiderweb.
Andriy Kovalenko, head of Ukraine’s Center for Countering Disinformation, also said Kyiv’s forces struck the JSC Progress plant in Michurinsk, a key link in Russia’s defence industrial chain manufacturing electronic stabilisation and control systems for artillery and rocket systems.
