INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russias deputy foreign minister said Thursday that drone attacks which Kyiv is alleged to have performed on Russian military bases would
just have actually been possible with United States assistance.Sergei Ryabkov, who remains in Geneva to address the UN Human Rights Council
and the Conference on Disarmament session, stated Washington must have provided intelligence and targeting details
Some time earlier, Kyiv undertook UAV (unmanned aerial car) attacks on centers that supply bases for our long-range air travel in Saratov
region and also in Ryazan region, he informed a press conference
We understand that those attacks would never ever be possible in the absence of a very deep and advanced help by the United States to the
Ukrainian military, consisting of targeting, naturally, intelligence provision and also some technical help of other sorts
In early December, the Russian Defense Ministry said Ukrainian drone attacks triggered surges at two airfields leaving three dead.One of
them is the Engels airbase, in the southern Saratov region located more than 600 kilometers (370 miles) from the border with Ukraine, where
some of Russias strategic nuclear bombers are kept.The airfields were targeted with Soviet-made drones, the ministry said at the time.The
United States said on Dec
6 that it had not allowed Ukraine to perform strikes inside Russia, after a spate of drone attacks on military-linked facilities deep
within Russian territory.Ukraine has never said whether or not it had deployed drones against Russian territory.
