KYIV: A protracted-range Ukrainian strike on the Moscow-controlled Belbek airbase in occupied Crimea destroyed three Russian warplanes and a gas facility close to its primary runway this week, US industrial satellite tv for pc firm Maxar stated.
The corporate cited satellite tv for pc imagery taken on Thursday as displaying that two MiG-31 fighter jets and an Su-27 fighter jet had been destroyed. It stated one MiG-29 fighter plane additionally appeared to have been broken.
Ukraine has not publicly claimed accountability for putting the airbase.
The Russian defence ministry stated on Thursday that Ukraine had staged an in a single day assault on Crimea and that its air defence forces had intercepted 5 long-range missiles often known as ATACMS.
On Wednesday, it stated Russia had intercepted 10 long-range ATACMS additionally launched at Crimea. It didn’t report any harm to army services in both assault.
Ukraine has more and more resorted to utilizing long-range drones and missiles to strike strategic targets far behind the entrance line, together with in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula which Russian troops seized and annexed in 2014.
