🟪 SIX RUSSIAN WARPLANES REPORTED DESTROYED AS SATELLITE IMAGERY REVEALS DEVASTATION AT BORISOGLEBSK AIRFIELD
New Airbus satellite imagery confirms extensive destruction across the aircraft parking and support area at Borisoglebsk following Ukraine’s overnight Neptune missile strike. The apron is covered by burn scars, wreckage and scattered debris.
Ukraine’s Navy reports that six Russian Su-34M fighter-bombers were destroyed, together with technical equipment supporting flight operations. The imagery strongly supports the account of a devastating direct hit, although its current resolution does not allow six individual aircraft wrecks to be independently identified.
Additional aircraft and equipment may have been damaged by the explosion, secondary detonations and flying debris. That damage may only become visible in sharper imagery—or when Russia begins moving surviving aircraft away from the base.
If the six-aircraft tally is confirmed, this would rank among Russia’s largest single-night losses of tactical combat aircraft during the full-scale war. Su-34s are among the principal platforms Russia uses to launch guided aerial bombs against Ukrainian positions and frontline communities. Eliminating six at one airfield would remove a meaningful portion of that local strike capability and represent hundreds of millions of dollars in losses.
A Russian military-aviation channel has disputed the number of aircraft destroyed. But the satellite imagery leaves little room to dispute the broader result: a section of Borisoglebsk’s flight line has been devastated.
One Ukrainian-built Neptune reached deep inside Russia and delivered one of the war’s most consequential blows against Russian tactical aviation.