LONDON — The Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) carried out a large-scale operation concentrating on 4 Russian navy airfields on Sunday, an SBU supply confirmed to ABC Information, claiming to have hit greater than 40 navy plane “that bomb Ukrainian cities each night time.”
The governors of the Russian areas of Irkutsk and Murmansk confirmed drone assaults of their respective areas. Movies shared with ABC Information by the SBU confirmed drones attacking Olenya airbase in Murmansk and Belaya airfield in Irkutsk. Each are dwelling to Russian strategic bomber plane, together with nuclear-capable bombers.
The governor of Irkutsk famous that the drones had been launched from the again of a truck within the space. The governor posted an accompanying video of drones flying overhead and big columns of smoke rising close by.
Smoke rises above the world following what native authorities referred to as a drone assault on a navy unit within the Sredny settlement, within the Usolsky district of the Irkutsk area, Russia, on this nonetheless picture from a video revealed June 1, 2025.
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A supply within the SBU instructed ABC Information that the operation had been deliberate for “greater than a yr and a half.” Drones had been hid inside makeshift “cellular homes” with retractable roofs, which had been then positioned on vans.
“On the proper second, the roofs of the homes had been remotely opened and the drones flew out to strike,” the supply mentioned.
Ukrainian drones hid inside makeshift ‘cellular homes’ with retractable roofs had been utilized in assault, June 1, 2025, on Russian navy airfields, an Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU) supply instructed ABC Information.
Safety Service of Ukraine
Elsewhere, no less than seven folks had been killed and 66 injured when a railway bridge collapsed and a prepare derailed in Russia’s western Bryansk area in a single day, following what one native official mentioned was “an explosion” on the route.
Prepare operator Moscow Railway mentioned the quantity 68 passenger prepare was touring from the Belgorod border city of Klimov to Moscow when it derailed “as a result of collapse of the superstructure of the street bridge on account of unlawful interference in transport operations.”
“There was an explosion on the bridge on the freeway whereas the Klimov-Moscow prepare was transferring, which had 388 passengers on board,” Bryansk Gov. Aleksandr Bogomaz mentioned throughout an interview on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, as quoted by the state-run TASS information company.
Bogomaz mentioned on Telegram that seven folks had been killed and 66 folks had been injured, 47 of whom had been hospitalized
A second railway bridge collapsed in a single day within the Russian area of Kursk — one other border area neighboring Bryansk to its north — derailing a passing freight prepare.
“A part of the prepare fell onto a street beneath the bridge,” Alexander Khinshtein, the performing regional governor, mentioned. No less than one employee was injured, he added.
Andrei Klishas, the chairman of Russia’s Federation Council Committee on State Development, claimed on Telegram that Ukraine was liable for the lethal incident in Bryansk.
“The blowing up of the bridge and the derailment of the passenger prepare within the Bryansk area point out that Ukraine is managed by a terrorist group,” he wrote.
The Kremlin mentioned in an announcement that President Vladimir Putin “was briefed on the state of affairs,” receiving updates from the Federal Safety Service and the Emergencies Ministry.
Andriy Kovalenko, the top of the Counter-Disinformation Heart working as a part of Ukraine’s Nationwide Safety and Protection Council, disputed recommendations of Ukrainian involvement in a Telegram put up — linking the allegations to Monday’s deliberate peace talks in Istanbul, Turkey.
“It appears that evidently the Kremlin is getting ready the bottom for the disruption of the talks,” Kovalenko wrote. “Ukraine has no motive to disrupt the Istanbul summit. Quite the opposite, Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire way back. Subsequently, a rail battle within the model of World Struggle II is an argument for Russian propaganda, not an instrument of our coverage.”
Ukrainian intelligence providers have previously claimed accountability for assaults on Russia’s railway networks supposed to hamper Moscow’s navy logistics, whereas additionally sharing studies of arson and different sabotage operations towards Russian railways with out explicitly claiming accountability.
On Sunday, for instance, Ukrainian navy intelligence — GUR — reported an explosion on a railway in occupied southern Ukraine on Saturday night time, which it mentioned derailed a freight prepare that was heading towards occupied Crimea.
“On account of an explosion on the railway monitor, the prepare with gasoline tanks and freight vehicles derailed,” the GUR mentioned in an announcement. “The important thing logistical artery of Muscovites within the occupied territories of Zaporizhzhia area and Crimea was disrupted.”
“The combat towards the navy logistics of the Russian occupiers continues,” the GUR assertion added.
Ukrainian strikes within the Russian border areas of Bryansk, Kursk and Belgorod have develop into commonplace over greater than three years of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. These have included floor incursions by Ukrainian forces, most notably within the Kursk area.
On this picture revealed on Moscow Interregional Transport Prosecutor’s Workplace Telegram channel on June 1, 2025, emergency workers work at a broken bridge in Russia’s Bryansk area.
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In the meantime, Moscow additionally continued its personal long-range strike marketing campaign towards Ukraine. The Ukrainian air pressure reported 479 drones and missiles launched into the nation in a single day, marking considered one of — if not the — largest in a single day aerial assault of the 3-year-old battle.
The air pressure mentioned it neutralized 385 of the “aerial assault property,” however added that “impacts” had been recorded in 18 locations.
The Ukrainian Floor Forces additionally reported a Russian missile strike on a navy coaching facility in an undisclosed location in Ukraine, by which 12 folks had been killed and 60 injured.
ABC Information’ Victoria Beaule, Natalia Popova and Oleksiy Pshemyskyi contributed to this report.
