Ukraine reports Neptune strike on Russian airfield, with conflicting aircraft-loss figures
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Ukraine said it struck the Borisoglebsk military airfield in Russia’s Voronezh region overnight on October 15, using Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles against Russian combat aircraft.
The Ukrainian Navy reported that six Su-34M fighter-bombers were destroyed, while President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a lower figure of four Su-34 aircraft. Reports said a large fire and repeated explosions followed the attack, but the extent of damage to the airfield’s infrastructure and any casualties among Russian personnel remained under assessment.
Russia uses Su-34 aircraft to launch guided bombs and missiles at Ukrainian military positions and communities near the front line. The differing Ukrainian accounts did not immediately establish a definitive number of aircraft destroyed.
The airfield strike came as Ukraine continued attacks on targets deeper inside Russia. Ukrainian drones also hit Sberbank’s Balakovo data center on October 14, following three attacks during the previous week on Yandex data centers. Sberbank confirmed its facility was attacked but said its systems and services continued operating normally. Neither Sberbank nor Yandex disclosed whether supercomputers used for artificial-intelligence development were damaged.
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