Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine media claimed Tuesday.
The attacks on Russian airfields on Saturday and Monday destroyed two Russian bombers and damaged two other aircraft, according to Ukrainska Pravda, as the war approaches its 18-month milestone.
Next time, target their spaceports and satellite control centers. Blind them.
There’s a Luna-25 joke in here somewhere, but I’ve had too much Irish Ale. Someone, please.
I thought they just got a Tu-22M3. Did they get two plus a couple other aircraft?
Regardless, it’ll make it much more difficult to fly missions from where they relocated the bombers.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian saboteurs coordinated by Kyiv’s military intelligence services carried out a pair of recent drone attacks that hit parked bomber aircraft at air bases deep inside Russia, Ukraine media claimed Tuesday.
Ukraine’s Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Malyar said in a statement Tuesday that the Ukrainian military have entered the south-eastern village of Robotyne in the frontline Zaporizhzhia region and were coming under continuous shelling by Russian forces.
Satellite images from Planet Labs PBC analyzed by The Associated Press showed what appeared to be 10 Tupolev Tu-22M long-range bombers parked on the apron of the Soltsy air base on Aug. 16.
Some previous Ukrainian attacks on Russian air bases involved Soviet-designed drones powered by turbojet engines.
However, falling wreckage of one drone shattered an apartment building’s windows and damaged vehicles in Moscow’s western suburbs.
Ukraine hasn’t acknowledged responsibility for the attempted drone strikes, nor have senior Russian leaders made any comment about the development.
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