[Regnum] The planes were not destroyed during the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Russian airfields on June 1. They were damaged and will be repaired, Deputy Foreign Minister of the Russian Federation Sergei Ryabkov said in an interview with TASS.
"The equipment in question, as was also stated by representatives of the Ministry of Defense, was not destroyed, but damaged. It will be restored," the diplomat said.
Ryabkov emphasized that "there is nothing close" to what the Kiev regime claimed when presenting the results of its attack. It is necessary to follow and trust the data officially disseminated by the Russian Defense Ministry, the Deputy Foreign Minister pointed out.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, after a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on June 4, American leader Donald Trump emphasized that Moscow intends to respond to the Kiev regime’s massive attack on Russian airfields.
Trump found it useful to learn Putin's opinion on Kiev's recent terrorist attacks on Russian regions, presidential aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters on June 4.
In a telephone conversation with Trump, the Russian leader emphasized that Kyiv was trying to disrupt the negotiations in Istanbul by striking civilian targets, Ushakov noted.
On June 1, the Kiev regime carried out terrorist attacks against five Russian airfields: in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions. The attacks were carried out using FPV drones, which are controlled by an operator via video link in real time.
All attacks on military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions were repelled. Fires broke out in the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, they were extinguished, there were no casualties or fatalities. The Ministry of Defense reported that some of the perpetrators of the terrorist attacks were detained.