A wave of bewilderment and anger swept through Russian military bloggers after 20 drones flew into the airport in the northeastern Russian city of Pskov last night and set off a veritable fireworks display of munitions and aircraft explosions.

The Russians themselves announced that 4 Il-76 military transport aircraft were damaged as a result of the drone attack.

In addition, huge clouds of black smoke rose over the airport, and ammunition explosions continued for hours.

Russian military officials are at a loss as to how the men of Major General Kyrylo Budanov, the mythical head of the Main Directorate of Intelligence under the Ministry of Defense in Kiev, organized such an operation.

Such a reaction is completely logical considering that the shortest distance from Ukrainian territory to Pskov airport is 664 kilometers.

If this route was used, however, the drones must have entered and exited unnoticed through the territory of Belarus.

Another hypothesis is that the drones took an extended route entirely through Russian territory, passing over Smolensk, which would extend the flight over 700 kilometers. This does not speak well for the Russian air defense capabilities.

The Telegram channel „The Two Majors“ also launched two more exotic versions. According to one of them, the attack could have come from the territory of a NATO country. Near Pskov are Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

„We don’t think at all about the last possibility – here, in Russia, that so many Ukrainian landing-reconnaissance groups are operating that can launch such a quantity of drones at the same time,“ the military commanders are angry.

Moscow responded to the „brazen action“ with a massive attack on Kiev, using drones and missiles.

„A night air attack. Kiev has not experienced such a powerful attack since the spring. The enemy carried out a massive, combined attack using drones and missiles,“ the military administration in the Ukrainian capital said.

It is noted that the invaders first used Shahed attack drones. Several groups of such drones flew in from different directions. Soon, however, rockets launched by Tu-95MS strategic bombers also flew towards the capital.

„In general, the air defense forces and means destroyed more than 20 enemy targets. In the capital, falling debris was registered in several districts. Unfortunately, there were also casualties. In the Shevchenko district, fragments of rockets killed two people, another was injured. Also thus, as a result of the fall of the debris, destruction and fires were caused in the Shevchenkivski and Darnitski districts,“ added the administration.

It is indicated that in both areas, debris fell on areas of non-residential buildings. Squads of the state emergency services extinguished the fires that occurred at the crash site.

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