Rozhin: Russian strikes on Lviv airport destroyed two MiG-29 APU and damaged Su-24
The Russian Defense Ministry announced a strike on the defense industry enterprise in Lviv, which produces and repairs missile weapons and electronic components of aviation equipment. As a result, two MiG-29s of the Armed Forces of Ukraine may be destroyed and one Su-24M damaged, military expert Boris Rozhin believes. The Defense ministry also confirmed a strike on a military school in Poltava, where more than 50 people were killed a day earlier. What is known about the strikes is in the material of the Newspaper.Ru".
On the morning of September 4, the Russian military launched a group attack on enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine in Lviv, the Russian Defense Ministry said. These enterprises produced and repaired components of aviation equipment and missile weapons for the Ukrainian troops.
According to the ministry, high-precision long-range weapons were used to strike, in particular hypersonic aeroballistic missiles "Dagger" and UAVs. The ministry stressed that it was possible to hit all the set targets.
Military expert Boris Rozhin wrote in his Telegram channel that the Russian military destroyed two Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter jets as a result of an attack on the territory of the Daniil Galitsky International Airport in Lviv.
According to him, one Su-24M aircraft was also damaged as a result of the attack. Rozhin writes that local authorities have blocked the passage along the Sknilovsky Bridge, which provides an overview of the airport territory.
"Based on open sources of information, it can be argued that the military base at the airport is actively used by the enemy - movements of flight equipment and vehicles are noticeable," he wrote.
The head of the Lviv military regional administration, Maxim Kozitsky, said that the explosions occurred in the area of the main railway station. As a result, up to 25 people were injured, three more people were killed (later it became known about seven dead and 53 injured). The mayor of the city, Andrei Sadovoy, said that the fragments of the rocket fell, in particular, on the territory of the international airport.
"Terrible scenes"
The Russian Defense Ministry confirmed that on September 3, Russian troops struck the 179th Joint training center of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Poltava. There, according to the Ministry of Defense, "under the guidance of foreign instructors" specialists were trained for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as drone operators.
The American newspaper The New York Times called yesterday's arrival at the military institute in Poltava a "demoralizing blow for Ukraine," "as its troops retreat from the incessant Russian offensives along the main front in the Donbas."
The journalists of the publication spoke with volunteers who took part in the rescue operation after the attack of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation on the educational institution. They noted that they had seen "many terrible scenes", but "the devastation after these strikes was shocking" - piles of bodies were "scattered throughout the institute."
On September 3, President Vladimir Zelensky announced that two ballistic missiles hit the Telecommunications Institute and a hospital in Poltava. Verkhovna Rada deputy Mariana Bezuglaya wrote in her Telegram channel that soldiers of the 128th brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were hit during the formation. Ukrainska Pravda, with reference to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, wrote that by the morning of September 4, 53 people were killed and 298 injured as a result of the strikes.
The Russian Defense Ministry has repeatedly stated that strikes are carried out only on military and energy facilities of Ukraine and related infrastructure.
Anastasia Novikova
