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Saboteurs 'blew up' aircraft at a Russian base in the latest in a string of attacks, causing 'hysteria,' Ukrainian military intelligence reports
Jake Epstein
Sep 20, 2023, 9:46 PM GMT+5
Russian Mi-28N military helicopters fly during a rehearsal for the Victory Day air parade, which marks the 75th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Saint Petersburg on May 7, 2020. REUTERS/Anton Vaganov
- Unknown saboteurs blew up several Russian aircraft at a military base near Moscow, Ukraine reported.
- Kyiv said the attack damaged two planes and a helicopter and caused 'hysteria' in the Russian military.
- The reported incident this week marks the latest in a recent string of attacks on airfields in Russia.
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Unknown saboteurs "blew up" several Russian military aircraft at a base near Moscow earlier this week, Ukraine's military intelligence agency said on Wednesday.
The reported attack marks the latest in a string of assaults specifically targeting airfields inside Russia's internationally recognized territory, which have taken place hundreds of miles away from active fighting along the Ukraine war's front lines and exposed major shortcomings in Moscow's domestic security apparatus.
An unidentified group of individuals managed to place and detonate explosives at the Chkalovsky airfield on Monday, the Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence, an arm of the country's defense ministry that's also known as the HUR, said in a
statement.
Kyiv said the sabotage damaged a Antonov An-148 passenger jet, a Ilyushin Il-20 ground attack aircraft, and a Mil Mi-28 attack helicopter that was previously used to shoot down drones around the Moscow region — systems used in attacks that have become an increasingly regular occurrence.
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The Antonov An-148 regional jet. REUTERS/Sergei Karpukhin
"The damage caused to the planes makes their rapid restoration improbable. A tail part of the helicopter was damaged by the explosion. Another AN-148 parked close to other ones was slightly damaged," the HUR said, according to a
translation from Ukrainska Pravda.
It claimed the incident caused "major hysteria in the top military command," as high-profile reconnaissance aircraft and Russia's
so-called "doomsday" planes — which can serve as an airborne command and control center in the event of a major disaster or conflict — are said to have been stationed at Chkalovsky at the time.
Although Ukraine revealed the attack and even published satellite imagery of the airbase, it did not specifically claim responsibility. Russia's defense ministry did not immediately publish a comment on the sabotage, but the HUR said Moscow has launched an investigation into the incident.
The reported sabotage at Chkalovsky follows other Ukraine-associated
attacks on airbases within Russia's own borders and far from the ongoing fighting in Ukraine. These attacks, some of which were carried out by drones, have damaged and destroyed several Russian military aircraft and
underscored serious gaps in Moscow's force protection capabilities and air-defense network.
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Moscow has celebrated its sophisticated and layered defenses for being able to stop threats like missiles and aircraft, but small drones have managed to
bypass and overcome these seemingly protective measures. Britain's defense ministry said in a late-August
intelligence updatethat Russia saw over two dozen separate drone attacks during that month alone. This problem has prompted Moscow to urgently seek a variety of solutions.
The Ilyushin Il-20 ground attack aircraft. NIKITA SHCHYUKIN/AFP via Getty Images
In late August, several drones that Ukraine said were
launched from within Russia's own territory
attacked an airbase, destroying two Ilyushin Il-76s — Soviet-era airlift planes — and damaging two more. After the incident and in an attempt to better protect the airbase from future attacks, Moscow turned to a newly created
civilian volunteer force to patrol the area.
Hundreds of civilian volunteers are not the only unusual measure Russia has taken to help secure its domestic security network. Other remedies to the problem include copying a World War II-era system by constructing
towers with guns on top and
placing car tires on vulnerable aircraft to project them form aerial threats. These
makeshift efforts have even extended to the maritime theater in the occupied Crimean peninsula, where Moscow purposefully
sank ships to protect a key bridge from potential Ukrainian sea drone attacks.
And the string of reported deep strikes is not just limited to Russia's internationally recognized territory. Ukrainian forces have carried out several
high-profile attacks on strategic Russian targets on and around the occupied Crimean peninsula — which was illegally annexed by Moscow in 2014 — over the past few weeks.
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