Three Russian military personnel reportedly killed when a drone attacked an airbase near Saratov, 450 miles south-east of Moscow
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Russian-supplied Iskander tactical missile systems, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads, and S-400 air defence systems have been deployed to Belarus and are prepared to perform their intended tasks, a senior Belarusian defence ministry official has said.
Leonid Kasinsky, head of the main directorate of ideology at the ministry, said in a video posted on the Telegram messaging app on Sunday:
Our servicemen, crews have fully completed their training in the joint combat training centres of the armed forces of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus …
These types of weapons [Iskander and S-400 systems] are on combat duty today and they are fully prepared to perform tasks for their intended purpose.”
On December 26, at around 01:35 Moscow time (2235 GMT), a Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle was shot down at low altitude while approaching the Engels military airfield in the Saratov region.
As a result of the fall of the wreckage of the drone, three Russian technical servicemen who were at the airfield were fatally injured.”
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