Two Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers have been destroyed and two others damaged by Ukraine’s Security Service (SSU), Armed Forces and Special Operations Forces in a drone attack on the Marinovka airfield in Russia’s Volgograd Oblast.

Source:Security Service of Ukraine; General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine; Special Operations Forces

Quote from the SSU: "The Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces and the Security Service of Ukraine have carried out a joint special operation that resulted in the destruction of two Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers and damage to two others at the Marinovka airfield."

Details: Long-range drones were used to conduct the operation. 

The attack also caused a fire to break out in the airfield's technical maintenance area – a critical part of the military facility.

Russian forces use this section to get aircraft ready for missions, perform routine maintenance, and carry out repairs.

The General Staff added that Su-34s are the main tactical military aircraft that Russia uses to carry out missile and bomb strikes against Ukrainian positions and civilian areas.

"They are classed as frontline fighter-bombers in the Russian Aerospace Forces," the General Staff said. "They are particularly used to drop guided aerial bombs, including some equipped with glide and correction modules [UMPKs]." [A UMPK is a guidance kit for converting unguided bombs into precision-guided munitions – ed.]

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