[Russia] - Drone Attack Sparks Fire at Military Site in Southern Russia

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian authoritiessaid Thursday that a Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at a military site that some observers identified as an
airfield housing warplanes that may be involved in combat operations against Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.Volgograd region Governor
Andrei Bocharov said Russian air defenses repelled a drone attack near the village of Marinovka, around 300 kilometers east of the border
Bocharov wrote on Telegram
13 drones over the Volgograd region as part of wider Ukrainian drone attacks across the country overnight.Eyewitness videospublished by the
independent Telegram news channel Astrashowed thick smoke and explosions at what was claimed to be the Marinovka airbase
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