Alarm goes off on airfield in Engels, Russian media reports

On Tuesday evening, 6 December, the sounds of a siren loomed over the territory of the Engels airfield, in Saratov Oblast of the Russian Federation.

Source: Yevhen Shpolskyi, First Deputy Head of the Engels district, in a comment to TASS News Agency [a Kremlin-aligned news outlet]

Quote: "The siren went off on the territory of the military unit. Civilian infrastructure is not threatened."

Reference: Russians are attacking Ukraine from the airfield in Engels. 

Background: 

• On the morning of December 5, Russian mass media reported that a fuel tanker exploded at an airfield near Ryazan in Russia; a drone fell on bombers at the Engels airfield in Saratov Oblast.
• The Ministry of Defense of Russia stated that the strikes were carried out by the "Kyiv regime". The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine stated that everything that happens on the territory of the Russian Federation is "the responsibility of the aggressor".
• A high-ranking Ukrainian official claimed in The New York Times that it was Ukraine that carried out drone attacks on airfields in Russia, one of which was coordinated by special forces.
• The American aerospace company Maxar published satellite images of the Russian airfield in Engels.
• Satellite images show that a fire on a Tupolev Tu-95 bomber was being extinguished at the Russian military airfield in Engels in Saratov Oblast.

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