{"id":214877,"date":"2025-01-14T12:24:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/ukraine-launches-massive-drone-attacks-inside-russia-officials-say\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T12:24:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T12:24:08","slug":"ukraine-launches-massive-drone-attacks-inside-russia-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/ukraine-launches-massive-drone-attacks-inside-russia-officials-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine Launches \u2018Massive\u2019 Drone Attacks Inside Russia, Officials Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1050\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/14\/world\/14ukraine-russia-01\/14ukraine-russia-01-facebookJumbo.jpg?fit=1050,550&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Ukraine Launches \u2018Massive\u2019 Drone Attacks Inside Russia, Officials Say\" title=\"Ukraine Launches \u2018Massive\u2019 Drone Attacks Inside Russia, Officials Say\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine carried out \u201cmassive\u201d drone strikes on several regions of Russia overnight, local officials there said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in a Ukrainian campaign to cripple Russia\u2019s war machine on its home turf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The attacks, mostly in southwestern Russia, were the latest in a series that have demonstrated Ukraine\u2019s ability to strike deep inside the country, even as Kyiv\u2019s forces face setbacks on their own territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Blasts were reported in the border region of Bryansk, and drones also targeted regions well beyond it like Saratov and Tula in western Russia, officials in those areas said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Ukrainian military did not immediately comment on the strikes. But Ukraine\u2019s Center for Strategic Communications and Information Security, a government agency, said seven regions of Russia had been attacked and that the targets included military production factories, and oil and gas facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The threat forced at least six cities to restrict their airspace on Tuesday morning, according to a statement from Russia\u2019s Federal Aviation Agency. Those included the cities of Saratov and Engels, which both came under overnight attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Two industrial plants sustained damage, Roman V. Busargin, the governor of the Saratov region, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/busargin_r\/7891\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Telegram<\/a>. \u201cToday Saratov and Engels were subjected to a massive UAV attack,\u201d he said, using another name for drones. \u201cAir defenses eliminated a large number of targets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It was the second time in a week that Engels, which is the site of an airfield for some of Russia\u2019s long-range, nuclear-capable bombers, has been attacked. Emergency crews only recently extinguished a large fire sparked by <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/08\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-oil-depot.html\" title=\"\">a strike on Jan. 8<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Busargin <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/busargin_r\/7890\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> that schools would be closed and classes in Engels as well as Saratov city would be held remotely on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The authorities in the Tula region of western Russia similarly confirmed a drone attack that they also described as massive. Dmitry V. Milyaev, the regional governor, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/dmilyaev\/2272\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> air defenses shot down 16 drones and that falling debris had damaged some cars and buildings. There were no casualties.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And local news media in Kazan, the capital city of the republic of Tatarstan in southwestern Russia, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/eveningkzn\/16891\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> that a tanker at a liquefied natural gas base was struck, igniting a large fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The head of the republic, Rustam N. Minnikhanov, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/rustamminnikhanov\/2464\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Telegram<\/a> that firefighters had put out the blaze and that there were no casualties or \u201csignificant damage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In the border region of Bryansk, which has come under more regular attack, powerful explosions were reported. The Russian independent media organization Astra said that a chemical plant had been struck; the report could not be independently verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">From the start, Kyiv\u2019s strikes inside Russia have aimed at limiting Moscow\u2019s ability to attack Ukrainian cities. But in recent weeks they have taken on added weight: as an attempt to project strength before President-elect Donald J. Trump\u2019s inauguration next week, amid concerns he might temper U.S. support for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has vowed to end the war swiftly. While he has not said how, many in Ukraine fear that he could make concessions to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia that have been red lines for Kyiv.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ahead of Mr. Trump\u2019s inauguration on Monday, the Russian military has also been putting on a show of force. While Kyiv\u2019s drones were targeting regions of Russia overnight, Moscow\u2019s forces were carrying out an aerial assault on Ukraine that put much of the country under air-raid alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ukraine\u2019s Air Force <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/kpszsu\/26788\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> on Tuesday morning that nearly 80 drones were involved in the attack but that it managed to shoot down 60. Apartment buildings and cars sustained damage from downed drones in several regions, it added, but there were no casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Nataliia Novosolova<!-- --> and <!-- -->Nataliya Vasilyeva<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/14\/world\/europe\/ukraine-russia-massive-drone-strikes.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukraine carried out \u201cmassive\u201d drone strikes on several regions of Russia overnight, local officials there said on Tuesday, in what appeared to be one of the largest recent assaults in a Ukrainian campaign to cripple Russia\u2019s war machine on its home turf. The attacks, mostly in southwestern Russia, were the latest in a series that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/01\/14\/world\/14ukraine-russia-01\/14ukraine-russia-01-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1179,169619,198,163809,3096,169620,168195,4656,5007,120,202,169621,1130],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214879,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214877\/revisions\/214879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}