This is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to sources in the Defense Forces of Ukraine.
According to sources in the Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, at least three Tu-95MS strategic bombers(NATO reporting name: "Bear") at the Engels-2 airfield were probably seriously damaged as a result of the drone attack. Seven occupiers died there, bomber pilots would be among them.
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Another object of attack was the military airfield in the city of Yeisk. As a result of strikes by Ukrainian drones, at least four occupiers were destroyed there aswell as two enemy Su-25 close air support aircraft (NATO reporting name: Frogfoot) were completely burned up.
The interlocutors also reported the damage to another airfield in Kursk. Details of the results of this attack have not yet been reported.
"The night of April 5 became one of the blackest for russia’s strategic aviation as well as for russian military aviation in general. The consequences of this attack alone will be felt by the occupiers in the long term. But this is not the last such an operation, as they say, we have not yet started," the interlocutor from Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence stated to RBC-Ukraine.
We will remind you that on Friday, April 5, they in russia complained about a mass attack by drones. The enemy claimed that air defense "managed to shoot down" 53 drones in different regions. Under attack were Morozovsk in the Rostov region, Yeisk in the Krasnodar region, and Engels in the Saratov region, where enemy airfields are located.
AsDefense Express reported, the strikes were primarily directed at military airfields used by russian forces to conduct airstrikes on Ukrainian territories. We also wrote, that satellite images reveal over 60 aircraft at russian airfields in Engels, Yeysk and Morozovsk prior to the UAV attack.
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