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Russian Ministry of Defense reports attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on airfields
2025-06-02
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[RIA] The Defense Ministry reported terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on airfields.

Key statements:
Kiev carried out a terrorist attack using FPV drones against airfields in the Murmansk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions;

At military airfields in the Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur regions, all terrorist attacks were repelled;

In the Murmansk and Irkutsk regions, as a result of the launch of FPV drones from the territory located in the immediate vicinity of airfields, several units of aircraft caught fire;

The fires have been extinguished;

There were no casualties among military personnel or civilians;

Some of the participants in the terrorist attacks have been detained.

Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin adds:
[ColonelCassad] P.S. One of the trucks that was supposed to attack the Ukrainka airfield in the Amur region exploded before it reached it.

P.S. 2. I think we will see the exact number of burned/damaged vehicles in the next 24 hours on satellite images of the attacked airbases.

P.S. 3. The trucks were equipped with drones at a rented warehouse in Chelyabinsk. It has already been found.

Even more from the V Kontake page of Tatyana Vasilyeva
‼⚡⚡⚡🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺⭕️ ⭕️ ⭕️About the scale of the damage:
In the Murmansk region, at the Olenya airfield, fires were recorded on four Tu-95s. At the Belaya airfield, where the Tu-22M3 and Tu-95MS were located, five columns of smoke were also noticed.

In the Amur region, it was not possible to carry out an attack - a truck with a UAV caught fire on the road. The sought-after target, apparently, was the Ukrainka airfield, where strategic aviation is also based.

There were reports of a UAV threat at airfields in the Ryazan and Ivanovo regions, but there was no footage of explosions or burning aircraft from there. Later, the Ministry of Defense reported that the attacks were repelled.

Information about the landings in Severomorsk and Voskresensk is also not true - moments of explosions at Olenya were passed off as footage of "landings".

The Ministry of Defense admitted the loss of equipment at Olenya and Belaya. At the same time, they added that there were no casualties among personnel or civilians.

In the evening, information appeared that the workshop for assembling and installing drones on a container was located in the Chelyabinsk region.

Posted by:badanov

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