In what appeared to be one of the largest-scale drone attacks on Russia in months, military transport planes were damaged near the country’s border with Estonia, a Russian official said. Separately, in Ukraine, at least two people were killed when Kyiv was targeted with missiles and drones on a scale a military official said had not been seen since the spring.
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The burial of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the Wagner group leader who died in a plane crash last week, was shrouded in misinformation, preventing a public display of support the Kremlin did not want to see.
Ukraine’s sense of urgency in obtaining F-16 fighter jets reflects concerns about the war against Russia, but also the political calendar in the West. But training pilots and support crew is a lengthy process.