Ukraine puts four Russian warplanes out of action in long-range missile strikes

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1. **The Telegraph reports:**

   Ukraine destroyed three Russian warplanes and apparently put a fourth out of action with a long-range Atacms missile strike earlier this week, satellite imagery has shown.

   Russia’s Belbek airbase, located on the occupied Crimean peninsula, was hammered by Ukrainian forces for two consecutive days.

   Initial photographs from the aftermath of the strikes appeared to show the destruction of one ground-based air-defence system.

   But freshly published satellite images by US-based Maxar Technologies revealed that two MiG-31 and one Su-27 fighter jets were completely destroyed.

   The images show the charred wreckage of the two MiG-31 Foxhound interceptors on the apron of the airbase.

   To the West, a damaged Su-27 Flanker can be seen in a parking bay, with what looks like the remains of a totally destroyed aircraft in the adjacent space.

   A fourth MiG-29 also stationed at the airbase, in the suburbs of Sevastopol, appeared to be seriously damaged, perhaps beyond use, in the strikes.

   It is not known whether the Soviet-era MiG-29 was operational.

   Read the full story: [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/17/ukraine-russian-warplanes-destroy-long-range-missile-strike/](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/05/17/ukraine-russian-warplanes-destroy-long-range-missile-strike/)