Strike on the Russian air base near Ryazan: the Tu-22M3 pilot was eliminated (photo)
Thanks to the successful attack, it was possible to damage not only the strategic bomber itself, but also to destroy Major Yevgeny Navlyutov of the Russian Air Force along with two comrades.
After the attack on the Diaghilev air base near Ryazan, three Russian soldiers died, one of them is the pilot of the Tu-22M3 strategic bomber. This is reported by StratCom of the ZSU.
One of the supply vehicles of the Tu-22M3 aircraft caught fire at the airfield after the ‘arrival’. She also damaged the strategic bomber itself. Three soldiers were killed in the attack. Among them are Major Yevgeny Navlyutov, his comrade-in-arms Oleksandr Shnotin, and another soldier Andriy Stolyarov.
Navlyutov and Shnotin were both 30 years old. They arrived at the air base as a ‘business trip’. They did their military service in Shaykivka, in the Kaluga region. Five servicemen were also injured.
On December 5, the Air Force Command of the Ukrainian Armed Forces published a photo of the damage to the plane in Diaghilev. The bomber with flight number RF-34110 suffered damage to the tail of the aircraft and the right stabilizer console. It takes weeks of work to restore it.
We will remind you that the EU declared that Ukraine has every right to strike in the deep rear of the Russian Federation. This became a new round of a full-scale war.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation confirmed the attack on the airfields, saying that the strikes were carried out by Soviet Strizh UAVs.
