In various regions of the Russian Federation, they reported a drone attack at night on July 5 – explosions and fires were recorded, in particular, in Engels and Saratov, Cheboksary and Borisoglebsk.
And at the airports of Saratov, Ulyanovsk, Pulkovo (St. Petersburg) and others, restrictions were introduced on the receipt and departure of aircraft.
Attack on the Borisoglebsk military airfield
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has already confirmed that as a result of the drone attack on the Borisoglebsk military airfield in the Voronezh region of the Russian Federation, where fighters are based that bomb the frontline regions of Ukraine every night, a warehouse with guided aerial bombs and a training and combat aircraft were hit.
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In addition, there is a possibility that other aircraft were also damaged.
The consequences of the strike on the airfield are being clarified.
Explosions in Engels and Saratov
Local publics wrote about a series of explosions in Saratov and the area of the Engels military airfield.
Saratov Region Governor Roman Busargin confirmed the drone attack, but claims that in Engels and Saratov, drone debris allegedly damaged residential buildings (we are talking about more than 25 apartments).
According to him, more than a dozen cars were also damaged, but there were no casualties.
Attack on VNIIR-Progress in Cheboksary
This morning, attack drones again attacked the territory of the VNIIR-Progress plant (All-Russian Research Institute of Relay Engineering with Pilot Production) in Cheboksary (the capital of the Chuvash Republic in the Russian Federation), which had stopped working after the previous strike on June 9.
This was confirmed by the head of Chuvashia Oleg Nikolaev.
According to him, one drone fell on the roof of an empty building of JSC VNIIR, where production was suspended after the previous attack, and the second damaged a warehouse that is being built on Lapsarsky Proezd.
Where did Russian air defense operate?
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported the alleged interception and destruction of 94 drones overnight:
- 34 – over the Voronezh region;
- 11 – over Bryansk;
- nine each over Belgorod and Saratov;
- 8 – over Novgorodskaya;
- 6 – over Kursk;
- three each over Leningradskaya and Orlovskaya;
- two each over the Rostov, Smolensk, Ryazan regions and the Chuvash Republic;
- one each over Moscow, Penza and Tula.