Ukrainian troops struck Russian army’s four military helicopters, four Su-34 aircraft and a Pantsir-S1 anti-aircraft artillery system in attacks on airfields in Crimea Peninsula and in Russia’s Volgograd region on the night leading to June 27 and on June 28, local media reported.
Ukrainian Security Service, the SBU, reported in Telegram app that four attack helicopters of Mi-8, Mi-26 and Mi-28 types, as well as a Pantsir-S1 self-propelled medium-range surface-to-air missile and anti-aircraft artillery system were destroyed in drone attack in the Kirovskoe military airfield in Russian-occupied Crimea Peninsula on the night leading to June 28. The SBU shared the photo of explosion in the airfield in Crimea following the Ukrainian attack. The Security Service stated it has scaled up attacks on Russian military targets that are used in strikes on Ukraine.
In yet another operation on June 27, Ukraine’s Security Service shot four Su-34 aircraft at the Marinovka base outside of Russia’s Volgograd city located about 900km from the Ukrainian border. The SBU described the Su-34 aircraft as Russia’s main aircraft used in bombing raids on Ukrainian territories, adding that the operation to target it was conducted by the military’s special operations branch, jointly with the SBU security service and other services of the military. “According to preliminary information, four aircraft were hit, specifically SU-34 planes, as well as technical-operational facilities where different warplanes are serviced and repaired,” the SBU stated in a post on Telegram app. There has been no comment from Russia on the attacks. However, the governor of Volgograd, Andrei Bocharov, said traffic on the bridge over the Don River in Kalanchyovsky district where Marinovka is located was temporarily restricted due to Ukrainian drone attacks.
