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Ukrainian forces strike Russian airbase with at least 70 drones, targeting Su-34 jets used to drop glide bombs
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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-mass-attack-russian-airbase-70-drones-budanov-2024-6
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 2 years ago
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The mass attack was launched at Morozovsk airbase in Russia’s Rostov region, almost 200 miles from the Ukrainian border.
A security source told Sky News that the Ukrainian attack was designed to target the jets that Russia has used to drop powerful glide bombs on Ukraine.
In early April, Ukrainian forces carried out another large drone assault on the site, destroying “at least six fighter bombers,” damaging another eight planes, and killing 20 Russian soldiers, a Ukrainian law enforcement official told Politico.
The cheap projectiles are made by attaching wings and satellite navigation systems to old Soviet-era bombs.
Russian bombers are then able to release them from safer distances, making it hard for Ukraine to counter such attacks.
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said in March that Russia’s use of the bombs was its “main advantage on the battlefield,” allowing its forces “to destroy the targets of the strikes and advance through the ruins.”
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