Russia says it destroys five Ukrainian SU-27 jet fighters at airfield

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Russia says it destroys five Ukrainian SU-27 jet fighters at airfield

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Tuesday it had destroyed five Ukrainian SU-27 fighter jets with Iskander-M missiles and damaged two more at the Myrhorod airfield in Ukraine’s central Poltava region.

Ukraine said there had been a strike at the airfield but that Russia was exaggerating the damage caused. Ukraine did not detail exactly what had been damaged.

Russia’s defence ministry published footage of the ******* which showed smoke and flames rising from an airfield. It did not say when it took place.

“As a result of the Russian strike, five active SU-27 multi-purpose fighters were destroyed and two were damaged,” the ministry said.

Russia is targeting Ukrainian airfields just as Kyiv prepares to receive the first U.S.-designed F-16s, which Moscow has vowed to ********.

A Ukrainian air force official, Yuriy Ihnat, said there had been a strike on Myrhorod.

“There was an *******. There are some losses, but not the ones the ****** claims, after all, they have always done this since the beginning of the invasion,” Ihnat wrote in a statement on

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late on Monday.

Ukrainian military bloggers reported that a Russian reconnaissance drone had been able to fly above the airfield to help conduct the strike.

“There is not enough means to ******** (reconnaissance) drones,” Ihnat told Reuters on Tuesday when asked about such drones, which he said present a “very serious threat”.

“It flies and reports everything in real-time, then Iskander arrives in a couple of minutes. It is obvious.”

(Reporting by Reuters in Moscow and Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; editing by Guy Faulconbridge and Mark Trevelyan)

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