Drone Attacks On Russian Transport Planes; Ilyushin 76 Catches Fire

A drone attack on an airport has damaged Russian transport planes, reports said. The attack was on the north western Russian city of Pskov, where two military transport planes were damaged. The transport planes, Ilyushin 76 (Il 76), caught fire, the BBC quoted Russian news agencies.

Pskov is situated near the Estonian Border which is 600 kms away from Ukraine. The local governor has uploaded a video of the fire, an explosion could also be heard.

Ukraine has not made any comments on the attack yet, however the country is believed to have upped its drone attack with explosives on targets inside Russia.

In another development, at an operation in Black Sea around midnight, Russian military forces destroyed four rapid Ukrainian boats which had 50 soldiers on it.

In the region of Bryansk in south and central region of Oryo, the Russian military claimed to have brought down three Ukrainian drones, and the airspace above Vnukovo airport, Moscow, has been closed, Tass news agency of Russia said.

Regarding the Pskov attack, the regional governor said, the military was repelling the attack and that as per the preliminary information, there are no victims so far. The Tass news agency reported that four Il 76 was damaged catching fire, while, later, the Ria news agency said that two Il 76 caught fire in the attack.

The region of Pskov was earlier targeted in May.

🚨‼️RUMOR: The drone swarm to Pskov was launched from Estonia, a NATO country.

Should it be confirmed … we have a bit problem. WW3ish kind of a problem. https://t.co/mYORzbNCr7 pic.twitter.com/DgCosbHzk7

— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) August 29, 2023

Last week, a drone had hit central Moscow and later, in a drone attack in Belgorod region of Russia, three people were killed. This came few days after a drone strike near St. Petersburg which destroyed Russian flagship long range bomber. Ukraine has not claimed on any specific attack, and rarely makes any comment on its attacks inside Russia.

Earlier, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky had said, as the war continues with Russia, the attacks were “inevitable, natural and absolutely fair process.”