Die spektakulären Drohnen -Treffer der Ukraine rasselte Trump und Putin

Ukraine’s [bold attacks targeting key assets](https://inews.co.uk/news/world/russian-strikes-on-kyiv-kill-four-days-after-moscow-vowed-to-retaliate-3733963?ico=in-line_link) in Moscow’s war effort have struck a nerve with Russia – which launched another deadly missile and drone attack overnight.

Bombs hit Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, killing four people and wounding 20, authorities said. But Ukraine fired back – hitting a [Russian](https://inews.co.uk/topic/russia?ico=in-line_link) fuel depot situated near to a strategic bomber airbase.

In pictures across social media, the Engels oil refinery, based in the Saratov Oblast in the west of the country was engulfed in flames.

It comes after Kyiv carried out a large underwater explosion aimed at the crucial road and rail bridge linking the Russian-held Crimean peninsula to mainland Russia on Tuesday, causing damage to its underwater foundations.

This followed the audacious “Operation Spider’s Web” drone attacks on Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet over the weekend that saw a number of Vladimir Putin’s aircraft wiped out. Ukraine claims that it targeted 41 strategic bombers in the operation, adding that “at least” 13 were destroyed. Security officials say the shock incursion took 18 months to plan and saw many drones smuggled into Russia.

Videos of the explosions that flooded social media were striking and Kyiv’s degrading of Russia’s war machine sends a message that is hard to overlook. But experts still aren’t convinced the attacks will shift the balance of the war in a substantial way.

“There’s always been this sort of underestimation of the Ukrainians. And each time the Ukrainians do this, it makes the Russians sit up and think again,” said John Foreman, associate fellow at Chatham House and former UK defence attaché to Moscow and Kyiv.