INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russia on Saturday said it had thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on a military airfield in the northwestern Novgorod region, the first time
the region has been targeted since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine."Today, at around 10:00 am Moscow time, the Kyiv regime carried out a
terrorist attack using a copter-type drone on a military airfield in the Novgorod region," the Russian Defense Ministry said in a
statement.The Defense Ministry said the drone was shot down "by small arms," adding that at least one warplane had been damaged but no
Veliky Novgorod.The Novgorod region lies between Moscow and St
Unlike Russia's frontier regions, annexed Crimea and Moscow and its surrounding areas, the Novgorod region has not been targeted since the
February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.AFP contributed to this reporting.
