The strike occurred in the northern Russian region of Novgorod for the first time since the start of the war.
However, the Telegram channel Ateo Breaking said that two aircraft rather than one had been damaged. Images shared on social media, taken some distance from the air base, show smoke billowing into the air from behind buildings.
Monitoring groups have said there were about 10 Tu-22M3 units at the airfield, which is located over 410 miles from the border of Ukraine.It follows a number of explosions in Russia, its occupied territories, and the Black Sea. On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed a Ukrainian naval drone had attempted to attack its ships in the Black Sea but that two Russian patrol ships had destroyed the naval drone before it reached its destination.
Ukrainian authorities reported on Saturday a 6-year-old was among at least seven people killed in a missile strike on the northern city of Chernyiv. Authorities said at least 110 people were injured. Meanwhile, Ukraine's Air Force said on Saturday it had intercepted 17 Iranian-made Shahed kamikaze drones launched overnight from Russia's Kursk Oblast and that air defense was active in northern, central and western regions of the country.
The first deputy head of the Khmelnytskyi Oblast Military Administration, Serhii Tiurin, told Suspilne media that Moscow also Russia attacked Ukraine's western Khmelnytskyi Oblast with drones overnight, damaging nearly 400 buildings.
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