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The Russian military has carried out a devastating missile attack against a Ukrainian air base and nearby air defense site in the Dnepropetrovsk region.
Video footage of the attack, which was apparently carried out using tactical ballistic missiles, were posted to social networks on April 18.
Missiles armed with cluster warheads hit the Aviatorskoye air base, damaging at least three MiG-29 fighters and destroying ammunition depots. Another missile with an airburst warhead hit a S-300PS long-range air defense deployed at a site in the nearby settlement of Lyubymivka, completely destroying it.
Some 40 MiG-29A, MiG-29S, MiG-29MU1 and MiG-29MU2 were in service with Kiev forces before the start of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine more than two years ago. Last year, Ukraine also received at least 27 MiG-29G and MiG-29AS from Poland and Slovakia. The Russian military has already shot down many of these fighter jets or destroyed them on the ground.
Kiev forces also had around 100 S-300P, S-300PT, S-300PS and S-300V1 batteries in service prior to the start of the special military operation. The country received a single S-300PMU battery from Slovakia in the very first few months of the operation. Many of these systems have also been destroyed, damaged or captured by the Russian military.
The Russian military intensified strikes on high-value Ukrainian targets behind the front line in recent months, mainly using the 9K720 Iskander missile system.
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