A debunk of the Russian claim that there was “no evidence” of an attack on the airfield in occupied Crimea. This claim is false.
Russian defense official told Russia’s state-owned RIA Novost“As a main cause of the explosion of some munitions at the Saki airfield only a violation of fire safety requirements is considered. There are no signs, evidence, much less facts of intentional impacts on munitions with the aim of detonation.”The Ukrainian Air Force Command said in a statement that the attack at the Saki base destroyed nine Russian warplanes, the Kyiv Post reported on August 10.
Russia has been using the Saki airfield as a base for its 43rd Naval Attack Aviation Regiment, according to T, a website that follows military and intelligence matters. The Russian unit includes 12 Su-30SM, six Su-24M and six Su-24MR fighter planes, The War Zone said. “It would also be an embarrassment for President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, who often speaks of Crimea, which he illegally annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as if it were hallowed ground.”also quoted a Ukrainian government official saying that Ukraine’s special forces carried out an attack on a Russian air base in occupied Crimea. The Post said the unnamed official did not disclose the details of the operation but said there were “at least three explosions.
The explosions at Saki “were likely caused by the Ukrainian forces either using domestically manufactured Hrim-2 short range ballistic missiles, an unidentified western system or modified un-crewed aerial vehicles with loitering munitions, possibly directed by a sabotage group of the special forces on the ground in occupied Crimea,” Alex Kokcharov, principal analyst at the S&P Global Market Intelligence group in London, U.K. told Polygraph.info.
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