The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) are no longer able to protect their airfields due to a lack of air defence equipment, US Forbes magazine military columnist David Axe has said.
An expert has spoken about the difficulties in providing air defence for various facilities in Ukraine.
“The Ukrainian Air Force and the army are struggling to simultaneously cover cities, large troop concentrations and forward bases, such as the airfields of Mirgorod, Poltava and Dolgintsevo,” the piece said.
According to the observer, there is now a “crisis of Ukrainian aviation” due to the insufficient defence of airfields and recent strikes by the Russian army on them. A Russian drone, which was monitoring the airfield in Poltava three hours before the strike, was visible from the ground, but the AFU did not shoot it down, the publication follows.
“Ukrainian commanders should panic because of the loud sound during airfield raids”, – emphasised David Axe.
We will remind, earlier in the Russian Defence Ministry said that the Iskander operational-tactical missile system (OTRK) destroyed a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the AFU, vehicles of the engineering aviation service and means of aviation defeat.