Breaking News: Engels Airbase Comes under Attack and Withdrawal?

Nadin Brzezinski
3 min readDec 26, 2022

Ukraine, presumably, attacked the Engels 1 field in Saratov, about 800 kilometers inside the Russian Federation. This is one of the many articles on Telegram

Night “cotton”: explosions are heard at the airport in Engels

It is reported that ambulances accompanied by units of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation arrived at the scene of the incident.

Then there is this, through Google Lens, from another channel. Russians are done with the excuses:

This is not a minor thing and tells us that Russian air defenses are still porous. This is the same field home to the strategic bombers that came under drone attack about three weeks ago

Front collapsing?

Then there is this. Russians appear to be getting ready to abandon the northern Donbas. There is this translated screen grab and then this note from a Ukrainian channel:

The Armed Forces of Ukraine are successful in the Luhansk region — Kremennaya is practically ours, a matter of tactics, it is cut off from the North, Rusnya begins to…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

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Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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