Kyiv’s Brazen Drone Strike on Nuclear Bombers Alarms Moscow

Ukraine’s drone strike deep inside Russian territory left Kremlin officials angry and alarmed over the sudden vulnerability of a nuclear-capable air fleet far from the battlefield, according to people close to senior officials in Moscow.

Sunday’s dramatic attack on Russian long-range bombers in air fields in Siberia helped to disrupt an arsenal that Moscow deploys to hit Ukraine with some of its most powerful missiles. It also demonstrated Ukraine’s ability to hit key assets thousands of miles from the front lines, which the Russian military had thought were safe.