Russia registers explosions at two military airfields that leave at least 3 dead

Russian authorities are investigating two explosions that occurred this Monday at military airfields in the Ryazan and Saratov regions, both thousands of kilometers from Ukraineand which caused the death of at least three people and damage to Russian strategic bombers.

“Three people died, another five were injured, two of them seriously,” a source from the airfield located in the region of Ryazanabout 200 kilometers from Moscow.

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For his part, the governor of Saratov, Román Busarguin, tried to downplay the event and, although he acknowledged that there was “a strong explosion” in the enguels aerodrome, He assured that “there are no reasons for concern.”

“I want to assure you that there is no emergency in the city (…) No civil facilities have suffered damage. The police are investigating what happened at the military objectives.” said the governor of the region, located 860 kilometers from the Russian capital.

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However, according to local media, it could be attacks against these facilities where strategic bombers are deployed.

The Telegram channel Baza reported that “a drone of unknown origin attacked an airfield in the Saratov region”, without revealing their sources.

“According to previous data, on the morning of December 5, an unknown aircraft crashed on the runway of the local airfield. Two aircraft were damaged.” indicated the medium. The adviser to the Ukrainian Presidency, Mykhailo Podolyak, hinted on Twitter that these explosions could be a response from kyiv.

“If you launch things into the airspace of other countries too often, sooner or later unknown flying objects will return to the place of their departure”he tweeted.

Russia, for the moment, has neither confirmed nor denied the possibility that these were attacks.

The Kremlin spokesman, Dmitri Peskov, pointed out that the Russian Presidency “is aware of what happened”, but does not have “precise information”.

Source: Elcomercio

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