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Ukrainian forces attack Russian airbase with at least 70 drones, targeting Su-34 jets used to drop glide bombs

  • Ukraine targeted an airbase in Russia’s Rostov region with at least 70 drones, an official said.

  • Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s defense intelligence, confirmed the attack on the war zone.

  • The operation targeted Su-34 bombers used by Russia to drop glide bombs on Ukraine.

Ukraine hit a military airbase in Russia with at least 70 drones on Thursday, Lt. Gen. Kyrylo Budanov, the head of Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate, told The War Zone.

The mass attack was launched at the Morozovsk air base in Russia’s Rostov region, almost 200 miles from the Ukrainian border.

A satellite image of an airfield near Morozovsk shows what appears to be several Su-34 fighter-bombers.

A security source told Sky News that the Ukrainian attack was intended to target the aircraft that Russia has used to drop powerful glide bombs on Ukraine.

They added that the attacks were part of a “sustained campaign to degrade the Russian air force.”

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The extent of the damage caused by the attack is not yet known. Budanov told The War Zone that they were “waiting for information” on whether any targets had been destroyed or damaged.

But a Russian Telegram channel, The Kremlin Snuff Box, claimed that six Russian soldiers were killed in the attacks, citing sources within the Russian General Staff.

“Most of the drones were shot down, a few failed. We have six deaths, including two military pilots. And more than ten injured,” a source said, according to the channel.

It is not the first time that Ukraine has targeted the Morozovsk air base.

In early April, Ukrainian forces carried out another major drone strike on the site, destroying “at least six fighter-bombers,” damaging another eight aircraft and killing 20 Russian soldiers, a Ukrainian law enforcement official told Politico.

A video shared on social media at the time appeared to show the strikes.

Russia has increasingly used glide bombs – some weighing more than 3,000 pounds – to bomb Ukrainian targets.

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The cheap projectiles are made by attaching wings and satellite navigation systems to old Soviet-era bombs. Russian bombers can then release them from safer distances, making it difficult for Ukraine to counter such attacks.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said in March that Russia’s use of the bombs was its “main advantage on the battlefield,” allowing its forces to “destroy the targets of the attacks and advance through the ruins.”

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