Russian Volunteer Corps says it attacked warplanes in Russia's Kursk Oblast together with Ukraine's Security Service
The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), which is fighting on the Ukrainian side, has claimed responsibility for the attack on the airbase in Russia's Kursk Oblast on 27 August.
Source: RVC on Telegram
Details: "The latest highly effective attack" was reportedly carried out jointly with Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) military counterintelligence.
Quote from RVC: "Having once again seamlessly crossed the border full of holes, on the night of 27 August, we attacked a military facility with drones: an airfield full of Putin's vultures. All the targets were destroyed. We emphasise: only legitimate targets that have brought grief and death to peaceful Ukrainian cities. Air defence forces that covered the executioners' warplanes were also destroyed."
Details: The RVC stressed that a building in Kursk Oblast that Russian authorities claimed was supposedly hit by a UAV was actually struck by a Russian air defence missile.
The number of aircraft damaged in the attack on the airfield was not specified.
Neither the SSU nor the Russian authorities have commented on the RVC's statement so far.
Background:
- On 27 August, the Russians claimed that a drone had crashed into an apartment building in the city of Kursk overnight, supposedly causing no injuries.
- The news outlet Agentstvo (Agency) reported that two military facilities are located about 300 metres from the scene of the incident: a separate electronic warfare brigade, and the central aviation and technical base of military unit No. 1383.
- Sources in the SSU later told Ukrainska Pravda that SSU military counterintelligence attacked the Kursk airfield with 16 drones on the night of 27 August. Four Su-30s and one MIG-29 aircraft were hit. The targets hit also included S-300 radars and two Pantsir S-1 air defence systems.
- The SSU reports that almost all of the UAVs reached their targets.
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