Sources from the Security Services of Ukraine (SBU) claim to have carried out a massive attack on the Saki military airfield, in Crimea, on Wednesday night (20).
Saki — which suffered an extensive attack in August 2022 — is home to Russian fighter planes.
Sources told CNN that “the SBU and the Ukrainian Navy launched a massive attack on the Saki military airfield.”
“There were at least 12 combat aircraft (Su-24 and Su-30) and Pantsir MPADS [sistemas de defesa aérea] on the airfield.”
“There was also a training base for operators of Mojaher UAVs [de fabricação iraniana]. These are the drones used by the Russians to coordinate their own airstrikes and as combat strike drones.”
“The Security Service and Navy attacks hit their target and caused serious damage to the occupants’ equipment. To defeat the enemy, drones were used to overwhelm Russian air defense and then Neptune missiles were launched,” the sources told CNN .
The Neptune missiles are Ukrainian-made and were used to sink the Russian warship Moskva last year.
Some background
Since 2014, Saki Air Base has been home to a Russian naval aviation regiment, part of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, according to state news service RIA-Novosti.
Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 after Russian President Vladimir Putin sent military forces to what was then an autonomous region of southern Ukraine with strong Russian allegiances.
Thousands of Russian-speaking soldiers, wearing unmarked uniforms, invaded the peninsula in early March of that year. Two weeks later, Russia completed the annexation of Crimea in a referendum considered illegitimate by Ukraine and most of the world.
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