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The most significant damage occurred on
Thursday, August 22, when Ukrainian drones
attacked the Marinovka base in the Volgograd
region. Metal shelters for aircraft were hit,
with the confirmed destruction of a Su-34 and
a non-operational Su-24M, and three other
aircraft were damaged.
Ukrainian Losses
Russia also continued its attacks on
Ukrainian airbases. On Monday, August 12,
a rocket strike hit the Myrhorod base in the
Poltava region, severely damaging a Su-27.
On Friday, August 16, an Iskander-M ballistic
missile destroyed a MiG-29 at an airfield in
Dnipro.
On August 12, Ukraine suffered a particularly
sad loss when a MiG-29 with the call sign
"White 72" was shot down near Kramatorsk,
killing Captain Oleksandr Myhulya from
the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, who had
completed 160 combat flights. Russia claimed
the MiG was downed by a Su-30 fighter.
Ukraine also suffered one non-combat
aviation loss during training. A Mi-2MSB
helicopter from the 203rd Training Aviation
Brigade crashed, killing Major Nazar Prokazjuk
and a cadet from the National Air Force
University in Kharkiv.
F-16’s First Combat and First Loss
On Monday, August 26, the Ukrainian Air
Force suffered a major loss. It wasn’t just
the destruction of an F-16 from the small
contingent (reported as 10 aircraft) that
had arrived in Ukraine only a month earlier.
Far more tragic was the death of the respected
Attack on the Marinovka base on August 22. Destroyed aircraft shelters at the Marinovka base.
During the observed period, Ukrainian drones also hit a large fuel depot in Proletarsk in the Rostov region.
It burned for over a week.
Captain Oleksandr Myhulya of the 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade of Ukraine and the wreckage
of the MiG-29 fighter jet in which he died on August 12.
Ukrainian operator Oleksandr
next to the IRIS
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T air defense
system with marked successes
against Russian cruise missiles.
Notice that the fifth symbol from
the right is doubled. At that time,
the Ukrainians hit one Russian
missile with a rocket, and its
explosion destroyed another
Russian missile.
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October 2024