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Ivanovo airfield after drone attack 01.06.2026
2025-06-04
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin.

[ColonelCassad] Satellite images of the airfield in Ivanovo (taken on June 3) appeared after an attempt to attack the airfield with kamikaze drones launched from special trucks. The images do not show any serious damage to the airfield or damaged/burned aircraft.

The planes are still parked in the open, as before.

This confirms that the aircraft were lost at airbases in the Irkutsk and Murmansk regions. The truck did not reach Ukrainka in the Amur region. Judging by the photos, everything is fine in Ivanovo.

Photos of the airfield in the Ryazan region (but according to reports on June 1, they also fought back there) and in Olenegorsk, where a number of aircraft were hit, have not yet been published.

In general, there are certainly no 40 destroyed aircraft. In reality, 12-14 aircraft were damaged at two airfields, some of which were destroyed, some were out of action for lengthy repairs.

I predict that the loss of several Tu-95MS in the coming months will force the program of replacing Tu-95s with Tu-160s, which was stretched out until 2035-2040, to be accelerated.

We currently produce four Tu-160s per year. At this rate, replacing retired and simply outdated aircraft is, frankly speaking, not a quick matter. But we will have to speed up - strategists are needed one way or another, because it is unclear when the PAK DA will be there again.

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