The Russian propagandist spoke about the consequences of the attack on the military airfield in Pskov.
In Pskov, Russia, on the night of August 30, strong explosions occurred at a military airfield due to a drone attack. According to the GUR, four Russian Il-76 aircraft were destroyed.
Russian war correspondent and propagandist Roman Saponkov said that as a result of the attack on the airfield, “20 billion rubles were burned.”< /p>
So, according to him, one side was only recently repaired. The other two had freshly overhauled engines.
“Now three Il-76s are produced a year, i.e. the loss of four Ils, this is almost 1.5 years of production … The Moscow Region has 119 Ils left. That is, this is a loss of 3.36% of the entire Il-76 MO fleet and 8% of the fleet of commercial Il-76s (about 50 units in service). The cost of one Il-76 is 5 billion rubles. 20 billion burned down overnight,” the propagandist calculated the losses.
Roman Saponkov noted that 42 aircraft are in storage, of which it is not known how many have the resource left. That is, 9.52% of those in storage were lost.
“We see that with NATO reconnaissance equipment and our gouging, the enemy achieves painful injections. That in war the arrow regularly turns,” Saponkov complained. 76, four of which were destroyed at the Pskov airfield, the Russians are transporting personnel and weapons, including kamikaze drones.
Drones attack on Pskov
On the night of August 30, strong explosions were heard at the airfield in Pskov (RF), 700 km from Ukraine, due to an attack by unknown drones. Ukrainian intelligence confirmed the destruction of four Russian Il-76 aircraft.
Later, President Vladimir Zelensky spoke about the use of Ukrainian long-range weapons in the Russian Federation – they fell into a hostile the target is 700 km away.
ISW analysts noted that the drones did not detect it, because the Russians concentrated air defense on cover of Moscow.
