Ukraine Strikes Russian Missile-Carrying Aircraft, Zelenskyy Says
Satellite imagery showed significant damage to the bomber’s right wing, and Zelenskyy said the strike was a response to Russian attacks on Ukraine.
- On Friday, August 28, 2026, Ukraine's Security Service 'Alpha' unit struck a Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber at the Engels-2 airbase, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed overnight.
- Engels-2 serves as a primary hub for Russian Tu-95MS and Tu-160 bomber fleets, which regularly launch Kh-101 cruise missiles at Ukrainian targets and store munitions and fuel.
- Satellite imagery revealed significant damage to the bomber's right wing; this is the second confirmed hit on a Tu-95 at the base in roughly six weeks following a July 16 strike.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy characterized the strike as a "just response" to Russia's war, noting Ukrainian forces also struck a Yaroslavl oil refinery approximately 1,000 kilometers from the front line.
- The base previously experienced a major fire in late July affecting a military barracks roughly two kilometers from the airfield, where NASA's FIRMS system registered a thermal anomaly.
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Russian losses were confirmed by satellite imagery published by analysts from the AviVector group. The attack on the Engels-2 base on the night of Thursday into Friday was carried out using long-range drones. The mission was carried out by operators from the Special Operations Center "A" of the Security Service of Ukraine. As a result, the Russian bomber suffered serious damage to its right wing – part of it even tore off. The Tu-95MS bomber is …
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Yaroslavl refinery lost about 40% of its capacity after the FP-1 attack - Fire PointFP-1 hit the AVT-3 unit at the Yaroslavl refinery with a capacity of 6.2 million tons of oil per year. It provides about 40% of the plant's capacity.
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