Crimea Strike Destroys Two Russian MiG-31s, Prized S-400 System—Report

Ukraine launched long-range strikes on the Crimean Belbek air base on consecutive nights, according to Russian sources.

An advanced Russian air defense system and two fighter jets were damaged in a Ukrainian long-range missile strike on a key air base in Crimea, according to an independent Russian media report.

Pro-Ukrainian partisan movement ATESH, which operates in Crimea, said on Wednesday that the Belbek airfield's 'main artillery warehouse' was damaged, compromising missiles used by Russian jets to fire at Ukraine.Olexander Scherba, Ukraine's former ambassador to Austria, said on Thursday that 'multiple jets' and a S-400 air defense system, and possibly a strategic missile carrier, had been 'destroyed' at the Belbek airfield in the past two days.

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