SBU and Ukraine's Defense Forces conduct largest attack on Russian airfields
The Security Service of Ukraine and the Defense Forces targeted four Russian airfields overnight on August 13, marking the largest attack on Russian airfields since the beginning of the full-scale war, an informed source told hromadske.
Long-range drones attacked airfields in Voronezh, Kursk, Savasleyka, and Borisoglebsk. Our source claims that this was a specially planned operation so that the Russians could not use these airfields to strike the front line and Ukrainian cities with guided aerial bombs.
"The SBU continues to methodically weaken the aviation part of the Russian military machine. It is the planes that give the enemy an advantage in the air so far, but we will continue to clip the wings of these ‘birds’ ," a source in the SBU said.
The Ministry of Defense of Russia reported a massive attack by drones and missiles on its territory in the early hours of August 14. The aggressor claims that they allegedly destroyed four tactical missiles and 117 fixed-wing drones over the Kursk, Voronezh, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Bryansk, and Rostov oblasts.
The Astra Telegram channel wrote that in the morning drones were spotted over the settlements of Veletma and Savasleyka in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. Local sources reported "about 10 hits" at the Savasleyka military air base and that the area nearby was blocked.
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View in Telegram.The carriers of the Kinzhal missiles with which the Russian Federation bombards Ukraine - MiG-31 aircraft - are based at this airbase.
Residents also reported that the Borisoglebsk military airfield caught fire overnight after a drone attack, but there is no confirmation yet, Astra reports.