Drone attack on Russian bomber air base leaves three servicemen dead

Bloomberg

Three servicemen were killed during a Ukrainian drone attack at a military air base in southern Russia that hosts strategic bombers, the Defense Ministry in Moscow said.
The military personnel died from falling wreckage when Russian air defenses shot down the drone, the state-run Tass news service reported, citing the ministry. No aircraft were damaged, it said.
It’s the second time the Engels base in the Saratov region has been hit this month after an attack that damaged two Tu-95 bombers, at the same time as a strike on an airfield in the Ryazan area. Ukraine hasn’t publicly confirmed responsibility for any of the incidents at least 500 kilometres (310 miles) from the border between the two countries.
“If Russians thought that war won’t touch them in their deep rear, they were deeply wrong,” Ukrainian air defense spokesman Yuriy Ihnat said on television in response to the latest attack, without commenting on whether Ukraine was involved.
Russia in early December retaliated by firing a barrage of air- and sea-launched
missiles against energy and communications infrastructure in Ukraine.