The drone attack hit the Soviet-era base in Engels, which hosts Russia’s Tupolev Tu-160 nuclear-capable heavy strategic bombers, colloquially known as White Swans.

Drones are reported to have struck the Engels-2 air base, which houses Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers that have been used ...

For the foreseeable future a conventional approach to defence, perhaps backed by British and French nuclear assets, remains ...