💥 Attack

Up to two dozen Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked Savasleyka air base during early morning hours, flying approximately 750 km, causing explosions and fires reported by locals.

Savasleyka, Nizhny Novgorod
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Stefan Korshak (Substack) Ukrinform Kyiv Independent UNIAN

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Up to two dozen Ukrainian kamikaze drones attacked Savasleyka air base during early morning hours, flying approximately 750 km, causing explosions and fires reported by locals.

Ukrinform → Source tone: certain

On August 16, kamikaze drones struck Savasleyka air base destroying three aircraft and damaging five others.

Kyiv Independent → Source tone: likely

Ukraine's attack on the Savasleyka airbase in Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast on Aug. 16 destroyed three Russian planes and damaged around five others

UNIAN → Source tone: likely

In August, as a result of an attack on the Savasleyka military airbase in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, 16 enemy aircraft were destroyed and 5 were damaged

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Extracted: 2026-02-16T21:56:26.229Z

Source story: day-913-2024-09-04