Russia says Ukraine drones struck deep into its territory
- August 31, 2023
- Posted by: OptimizeIAS Team
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Russia says Ukraine drones struck deep into its territory
Subject: International Relations
Section: Places in news
Context: Ukrainian drones strike deep in Russian territory.
More about the news:
- Ukraine sent waves of drones deep into western Russia in nighttime attacks that struck military assets
- The drones hit an airport near Russia’s border with Estonia and Latvia, causing a huge blaze and damaging four Il-76 military transport planes,
- The airport in the Pskov region suffered the most damage in the overnight attacks.
- Other regions hit were Oryol, Ryazan, Bryansk and Kaluga,
Some details about Russia:
- Russia is a country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia.
- It is the largest country in the world by area, extends across eleven time zones, and shares land boundaries with fourteen countriese Azerbaijan, Belarus, China, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Kazakhstan, North Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Norway, Poland, and Ukraine
- It is the world’s ninth-most populous country and Europe’s most populous country.
- It has the world’s fourth-longest coastline, of over 37,653 km