It is likely that as a result of continued successful Ukrainian strikes on military locations, russia has been forced to implement a number of decoy and deception techniques in an attempt to obfuscate Ukrainian targeting efforts, the UK Defense Intelligence reports.
At Kirovskoe Airfield on occupied Crimea there are decoy russian fighter aircraft painted on the concrete. Such paintings have also been observed across at least 12 more russian air bases, demonstrating the extent of russian concern of future Ukrainian strikes and their ability to repel them.
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However, russian helicopters still regularly land on the painted decoy fighter silhouettes, completely undermining the deception attempt. This also reveals the true order of battle or aircraft strength at these airbases, which russia is likely trying to mask from Ukraine’s intelligence picture.
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