For months, we now have been listening to how Ukraine is ‘quickly’ to obtain f-16 planes from the West, in a bid to rebuild its decimated Air Pressure.
Within the meantime, Russian Federation forces are repeatedly concentrating on the primary air fields and increasing the destruction checklist of fighter jets that’s nearly at 100 planes because the begin of the battle.
The Mirgorod air base, positioned 100 miles from the frontline within the Poltava area, suffered a number of assaults within the month of June – and the assaults are getting ever extra damaging.
Yesterday, a Russian Orlan surveillance drone was surveilling the Mirgorod air base, and noticed ‘at the least six’ Ukrainian Su-27 supersonic fighters parked within the open on the base in broad daylight.
A Russian Iskander missile assault adopted. Iskander operational-tactical missile system was initiated to strike the Ukrainian Mirgorod airfield.
Ukrainians say two of the planes have been destroyed, and the opposite 4 have been broken. The Russian Ministry of Protection states that 5 operational Su-27 multirole fighters have been destroyed, and two beneath restore have been broken.
Forbes reported:
“It could have been one of many costliest single days for the battered Ukrainian air arm since Russia widened its battle on Ukraine in February 2022. ‘There are some losses’, air power official Yuriy Ignat acknowledged.”
Ukrainian bloggers and social media customers have been fast responsible air power officers for deciding to park their jets out within the open, particularly in a base so near the entrance line.
“The raid on Mirgorod is simply the newest in a collection of Russian strikes on susceptible Ukrainian air bases. In current months, Russian Lancet drones have struck at the least 4 Ukrainian jets at Dolgintsevo air base close to Kryvyi Rih, simply 45 miles from the entrance line in southern Ukraine.”
The Su-27s at Mirgorod improve the variety of Ukrainian warplanes blown up on the bottom – losses the ailing Ukrainian air power could not recuperate from.
“The Ukrainian air power went to battle in February 2022 with round 125 Su-27s, Su-25s, MiG-29s and different jets. In 28 months of onerous combating, the Ukrainians have misplaced round 90 jets that the analysts at Oryx have confirmed.
To make good their losses, the Ukrainians have acquired from their allies, or restored from long-term storage, scores of substitute MiGs and Sukhois. These airframes are protecting the air power in motion till ex-European fighters—85 Lockheed Martin F-16s and maybe a dozen Dassault Mirage 2000s—arrive in Ukraine.”
That is simply silly
Russian Forces, utilizing a Cluster Missile and a Iskander-M SRBM, managed to destroyed 2x UkrAF SU-27/(UB?), and injury 4 different SU-27s, which have been all parked within the open at Mirgorod Airbase
I’ve no phrases, whoever is answerable for the bottom, must get fired pic.twitter.com/pvZRRqdbyV
— WarVehicleTracker (@WarVehicle) July 1, 2024
F-16s and Mirages will even be susceptible until steps are taken to guard them. To tug operational jets away from Russian territory can be a begin.
“Ukrainian forces have entry to round 20 giant air bases, dozens of smaller airfields and even freeway airstrips scattered throughout the nation. Each single Ukrainian jet kind ranges lots of of miles on inside gas. There’s no purpose for an Su-27 that ranges 700 miles to spend any time at an airfield 100 miles from the entrance line.”
In fact, Russians have missiles that may strike throughout Ukraine all the way in which to Lvov within the border with Poland.
Ukrainians should transfer shortly of their countermeasures, or face destruction.
⚡️Ihor Mosiychuk provides ‘the reality’ in regards to the Russian missile strike on Ukrainian Mirgorod airbase: pic.twitter.com/yqtYUVkA8F
— SIMPLICIUS Ѱ (@simpatico771) July 2, 2024
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