Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide bombs after Ukrainian long-range strike

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Satellite images show damage at Russian base that stored glide ****** after Ukrainian long-range strike

Ukraine attacked a Russian airbase with long-range drones last month.

Russia used the Marinovka airfield to facilitate front-line strikes and kept glide ****** stored there.

The ******* destroyed aircraft shelters and storage facilities, satellite images show.

Newly released satellite imagery shows the extensive damage at a Russian airbase after it was hit by Ukrainian drones last month.

Ukraine used long-range drones in an August 22 ******* on the Marinovka airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region, which was used to facilitate strikes on the front lines.

A source in the Security Service of Ukraine told Business Insider at the time that

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that stored fuel, ammunition, and highly destructive glide ******. However, the full extent of the damage was unclear.

On Monday, nearly three weeks after the *******, Britain’s defense ministry said in an

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that Ukraine caused “widespread destruction to key infrastructure and equipment” at Marinovka.

The *** said the ******* destroyed four aircraft shelters and damaged three more. It also destroyed a radome (a protective enclosure for radar equipment), support buildings, and open storage area facilities.

The *** published satellite images captured by Maxar Technologies from August 19, three days before the *******, and August 24, two days after the *******, to highlight the extensive damage at Marinovka.

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Damage at the Marinovka airbase after a Ukrainian *******. Multiple aircraft shelters were damaged or destroyed.*** Ministry of Defense

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A storage area was completely obliterated in the *******.*** Ministry of Defense

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The Ukrainian drone ******* destroyed multiple storage areas.*** Ministry of Defense

“The SBU works with surgical precision at the airfields from which the ****** attacks Ukraine,” the SBU source said in translated remarks shared with ***.

Each strike, like the one at Marinovka, “reduces the superiority of the Russians in the air and significantly limits their aviation capabilities,” they added.

Ukraine is prohibited from using its arsenal of

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to strike Russia, so it has relied on locally produced, long-range drones to target Moscow’s military and energy facilities.

Kyiv has specifically tried to curb the threat of Russia’s glide ****** during a

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against airfields.

Glide ****** are ***** ****** equipped with special kits that turn them into precision-guided munitions. They are

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because they have short flight times, small radar signatures, and travel on non-ballistic trajectories.

Russia has used these deadly weapons — some

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— to inflict significant damage on Ukrainian cities and troop positions.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday that Russia used over 800 glide ****** in a single week.

“******* can only be reliably stopped in one way: by striking Russian military airfields, their bases, and the logistics of Russian *******,” he wrote in a post on X. “We must achieve this.”

The only way for Ukraine to

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is to ****** down the Russian aircraft before it releases any glide ****** or ******** the aircraft and the ****** on the ground at their bases. Kyiv has attempted to do this through its

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