According to the adviser to the Minister of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko, it was from this airfield that planes took off that fired missiles at Ukraine.
Residents of the Russian city of Yeysk, located in the Krasnodar Territory, heard explosions near a military airfield. This is reported by local channels in Telegram.
It is reported that eyewitnesses heard two explosions, after which a certain warehouse caught fire.
Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Anton Gerashchenko wrote in his Telegram that it was from this airfield that the planes that bombed the east and south of Ukraine took off.
“There is no official confirmation of this information yet, we are waiting and hoping,” he wrote.
Explosions in Yeysk
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Then the head of the Yeysk region, Roman Bublik, said that the explosions occurred as a result of military tactical exercises.
“Dear residents of the Yeysk region, I remind you that military tactical exercises are being held on the territory of the Yeysk region,” he wrote.
Airfield in Yeysk
At the western tip of Yeysk there is a large airfield co-located by the Navy, Air Force and the Russian FATF. The 859th Center for combat use and retraining of the flight personnel of the naval aviation of the Russian Navy and the 190th training mixed aviation regiment of the Navy on heterogeneous equipment are based on it.
Earlier, the network published the first satellite image of the Machulishchi airfield after the explosion. The monitoring group “Belarusian Gayun” reports that the A-50 radar aircraft was moved after the incident. His usual location is now empty.
British intelligence reported that the Russian military is concerned about precision strikes by the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Since February 21, at least 14 explosions have been heard in the city – in an ammunition depot at the airport and fuel depots. The Mariupol direction has ceased to be unattainable for the Ukrainian military.
The National Police showed the destruction of the enemy “Shahed” by explosives. According to the head of the National Police in the Kyiv region Andriy Nebitov, law enforcement officers found a fragment of an UAV with a fuse. Specialists neutralized it on the spot.
