On Wednesday night, the Defence Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine carried out the largest attack on Russian military airfields.
The attack was carried out by long-range drones of the SBU and the Air Force, the Special Forces, the Centre for Unmanned Systems of the Armed Forces, the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine and other branches of the armed forces. This was reported by LB.ua's sources.
The airports attacked were Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleyka and Borisoglebsk. Sources confirm that this was a specially planned operation to prevent the enemy from using these airfields to launch drones at the front line and Ukrainian cities.
Russian military commanders complained on social media about the effectiveness of the strike and that air defences had failed to protect these facilities. Local publics wrote about ten explosions at Savasleyka alone, where MiGs regularly take off from.
"The SBU continues to methodically weaken the aviation component of the Russian military machine. It is the aircraft that are still giving the enemy air superiority, but we will continue to clip the wings of these 'birds'," said an informed source in the SBU.
Attack on Russian airfields
- In the middle of the night, Russians began to complain about drone attacks and explosions near various military airfields.
- In the morning, Russia said it had been attacked by more than a hundred drones.
- Satellite imagery shows that a fuel and lubricant storage facility at the Savasleyka airfield, from which MiG-31s took off, was hit. This type of aircraft requires rare fuel.