Ukraine destroys or damages at least 24 aircraft in Russian rear, Crimea and Belarus − Russian media
Ukrainian secret services and armed forces could have carried out at least nine successful attacks on airbases in Russian regions, temporarily occupied Crimea and Belarus, and destroyed or damaged at least 24 aircraft since the beginning of the full-scale invasion by the Russian Federation.
Source: Vyorstka [Layout], Russian media outlet, which analysed the reports of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, media and OSINT researchers
Details: The media recalls that the first attack took place on the second day of the invasion, 25 February. One transport aircraft burned down at the Millerovo airfield in Rostov Oblast.
Various sources wrote that a drone or a Tochka-U missile carried out the strike. [Tochka-U is a surface-to-surface short-range ballistic missile; in Ukrainian, the term Tochka-U refers also to the operational-tactical missile system used to launch the missiles − ed.]
Ukraine's largest and most successful strike was on 9 August 2022, against the Saki airfield in Crimea. Then Russia lost four Su-30SM fighters and seven Su-24M bombers.
On 5 December 2022, UAVs attacked the Engels-2 and Dyagilevo airfields in Saratov and Ryazan oblasts. Then three aircraft were damaged: two Tu-95s and a Tu-22m3 strategic bomber.
The next attack was on 28 February 2023. The target was a Russian A-50 long-range radar detection aircraft at the Machulishchy military airfield near Minsk, Belarus. They tried to blow up the aircraft with the help of quadcopters, but it was only damaged.
At the beginning of May, Ukrainian drones attacked the airfield in the settlement of Seshcha in Bryansk Oblast. Then they damaged an An-124 transport aircraft.
There were three successful attacks in August: on 19, 21, and 30 August, on airfields in Novgorod, Kaluga, and Pskov oblasts of the Russian Federation. As a result, two Tu-22M bombers were destroyed, and four transport IL-76s and another unspecified aircraft were damaged.
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