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Russian Drone Launch Sites Hit at Two Airfields as Ukraine Strikes Nebo-U and Niobium Radars
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Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence (HUR) struck drone storage and launch sites at two airfields overnight on August 20, including facilities in temporarily occupied Donetsk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia.
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According to HUR on August 20, operators from its Active Operations Department and Unmanned Systems Department carried out the strikes as part of a deep-strike operation targeting Russian military facilities.
The agency said both airfields had been regularly used by Russian forces to launch attack drones against civilian targets in Ukraine. As a result of the strikes, ground-based components of the drone systems and UAV launchers were damaged, while fires broke out at the impact sites.
HUR operators also struck two Russian radar systems in the vicinity of the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield.
The systems were identified by Ukrainian intelligence as a 55Zh6U Nebo-U and a 55Zh6UM Niobium radar, both of which HUR described as high-value Russian assets.
The strikes in Russia’s Krasnodar region extended beyond the airfield. Ukrainian Defense Forces drones also targeted an oil and gas terminal and a key electrical substation linked to the power supply of temporarily occupied Crimea.
According to the outlet, satellite data from NASA’s Fire Information for Resource Management System detected fires at both facilities, including the Tamanneftegaz oil and gas complex in the settlement of Volna.
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