For more than three years, most of Russia has viewed the war sparked by the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine from afar.

Now, some say, following an audacious attack by Ukraine that saw hordes of drones smuggled into Russia and then deployed on June 1 to wipe out dozens of long-range bombers, it has arrived on their doorstep.

In the Irkutsk, Murmansk, Ryazan, and Ivanovo regions, drones struck air bases, shocking Russian authorities and citizens.

“It was a fiery hell,” residents of the Irkutsk region told RFE/RL’s Siberia Realities.

In Siberia, some 4,000 km away, residents appeared to be shaken.

“Now the war has reached us too,” residents told Siberia Realities.

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    For what it’s worth, this yank donated cash to Aussie fire relief back then. I have a bitchin death metal shirt with koalas and kangaroos on it where the profits went to the fire relief too. Love that shirt.

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      and now we collaborate quite nicely! we share fire fighting helicopters and fire fighters often fly over to help each other, since our seasons are offset

      hopefully that remains and isn’t just seen as “giving things away” and used as a bargaining chip in a perverse game of number go up