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UKRAINE WAR: RUSSIAN REPORTS SAY ENGELS AIRFIELD ATTACKED AGAIN




The Moscow Times is collecting all the latest breaking news and developments in
Russia's deadly attack on Ukraine.

While we make every effort to ensure the accuracy of our reporting, claims and
counter-claims in wartime are sometimes impossible to verify. 

Includes reporting from AFP.


Dec. 26, 2022 - 11:40 AM

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that its agents had killed
four alleged Ukrainian saboteurs attempting to cross into Russia’s Bryansk
region on Sunday.

Footage published by news agencies showed four blood-stained bodies in
camouflage with automatic rifles and what the FSB described as improvised
explosive devices stacked next to them.

Ukrainian authorities have not yet commented on the FSB’s claims, which came
hours after the intelligence agency said it eliminated a terrorist group that
had sent fighters to Syria and Ukraine since late 2021.

Dec. 26, 2022 - 8:51 AM

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak announced on Monday that Russia
will decrease its natural gas production by 12% and exports by 25% in 2022 due
to the closure of export infrastructure, according to the TASS news agency.

Novak also mentioned however that Russia will increase its LNG production by
8.7% this year. Despite Western sanctions, he reported that Russia has managed
to maintain its oil output and will increase production by approximately 2% to
535 million tons in 2022, with exports rising by 7.5% to 242 million tons.

Novak previously indicated that Russia is willing to resume gas supplies to
Europe through the Yamal-Europe Pipeline. The Yamal-Europe Pipeline typically
flows westward but has been mostly reversed since December 2021 as Poland
stopped buying from Russia and instead drew on stored gas in Germany. 

In addition, Novak also mentioned that Russia is in talks about increasing gas
supplies to Turkey through the creation of a hub there.

Dec. 26, 2022 - 7:33 AM

Russian investigators and intelligence services said Monday they have eliminated
a “terrorist” group that had sent “fighters” from central and southern regions
to Syria and Ukraine.

Russia’s Investigative Committee and the Federal Security Service (FSB) said the
group’s ringleader and 10 members have been arrested since December 2021. Eight
others, which the FSB said were currently in Syria, were put on an international
wanted list.

The FSB said the group provided “resource support” to the Islamic State,
claiming that its agents had uncovered during raids video evidence of members
taking part in Syrian and Ukrainian combat operations. The Investigative
Committee alleged that the 19-member group was active since 2010.

Two unnamed members have been sentenced to “lengthy prison terms,” the FSB said
without specifying further.

Dec. 26, 2022 - 6:57 AM

Russia's nuclear arsenal and the rules Moscow has established for its use are
the only things preventing the West from starting a war against Russia, Dmitry
Medvedev, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin, said in an article published
Sunday.

Medvedev, the deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, also stated that
Russia will continue its war in Ukraine until the "disgusting, almost fascist
regime" in Kyiv is removed and the country is completely demilitarized. 

Medvedev, who served as president from 2008 to 2012 and has been a vocal
supporter of the war, accused the West of wanting to divide Russia in order to
benefit Ukraine. He argued that the only thing preventing Russia's enemies from
starting a war, including a nuclear war, is the understanding that Russia will
use its nuclear deterrence policy in the event of a real threat. 

Medvedev claimed that if Russia does not receive the security guarantees it is
seeking, the world will continue to be on the brink of World War III and nuclear
disaster. He also stated that Russia may have to abandon the hope of normal
relations with the West for years or even decades and instead focus on relations
with the rest of the world.

Dec. 26, 2022 - 6:20 AM

Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed Monday that an overnight Ukrainian drone
attack on the Engels strategic bomber airfield left three soldiers dead, saying
they were killed by fallen debris.

The military said its air defense systems shot down the low-flying drone as it
approached the airfield in the Saratov region around 500 kilometers from the
Ukrainian border.

It added that no aircraft were damaged at the airfield that serves as a base for
Tu-95 and Tu-160 nuclear-capable strategic bombers.


THREE DEAD AS UKRAINIAN DRONE SHOT DOWN OVER RUSSIAN AIRBASE

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Dec. 26, 2022 - 5:00 AM

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russian "terrorists" and
thanked all his compatriots — including soldiers, doctors, volunteers — involved
in defending Ukraine in his daily address on Sunday.

"Thank you... to everyone who came to Kherson to help. To save the wounded from
the terrorists' strike on Christmas. Artillery and mortar against ordinary
Kherson streets... monsters!" Zelensky said. 

Deadly Russian shelling on a busy market in the city center in Kherson, the only
regional capital that was held by Russia, left 10 people dead and 55 injured on
Saturday.

The Russian-installed head of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, said on
Telegram the shelling was "a disgusting provocation" by Ukraine used to blame
Russia. 


Dec. 26, 2022 - 4:01 AM

Unconfirmed reports said the Engels airfield, a strategic bomber military base
in southwestern central Russia’s Saratov region, was attacked for the second
time in less than a month early Monday.

The Baza Telegram channel, which is believed to have links with Russia’s
security services, said three people were allegedly killed and four wounded.
Footage depicted the moment of an explosion and loud sirens in what is presumed
to be Engels.



Saratov region Governor Roman Busargin said security forces were inspecting the
reports while strongly denying that civilian sites were at risk.

Russia’s Defense Ministry previously confirmed that the Engels air base was
subjected to a drone attack alongside the Dyagilevo airfield in the Ryazan
region on Dec. 5. 

Three soldiers had been killed in the twin attack deep within Russian territory
that Kyiv has not acknowledged.






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