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Ukraine puts four Russian warplanes out of action in long-range missile strikes

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The images show the charred wreckage of the two MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors on the apron of the airbase.

To the west, a damaged Su-27 Flanker can be seen in a parking bay, with what looks like the remains of a destroyed aircraft in the adjacent space.

A fourth MiG-29 also stationed at the airbase, in the suburbs of Sevastopol, appeared seriously damaged, perhaps beyond use. 

It is not known whether the Soviet-era MiG-29 had been operational. Russia is known to have kept some of the fighter jets it captured from Ukraine when it illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 at the airbase as unflyable decoys.

A fuel storage near the airfield’s runway was also destroyed in the Ukrainian strikes.

Atesh, a pro-Ukrainian partisan network, claimed on the Telegram messaging app that the second strike had damaged an artillery and missile warehouse at the airfield.

“Significant damage to the airfield infrastructure as a result of secondary detonation was also recorded,” the group wrote.

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