Ukraine’s defence forces struck the Akhtubinsk military airfield in Russia’s Astrakhan Oblast and a facility used to store and launch attack drones in Oryol Oblast during the night of 14–15 November, Ukraine’s General Staff said.
At Akhtubinsk, about 650 kilometres from the front line, the strike was followed by a powerful secondary detonation at a storage facility containing missile kits, according to the General Staff.
The airfield hosts the Russian Defence Ministry’s 929th State Flight Test Centre, where new military aircraft and weapons are tested. It is also used as a base for Su-34 aircraft. Ukrainian forces additionally struck a mobile PRV-13 radar altimeter, which is used to determine the altitude and coordinates of airborne assets.
In Oryol Oblast, the strike targeted a site near the settlement of Tsymbulova known as the Tsymbulova drone port. The General Staff described it as a facility used to store and prepare attack drones before launching them against Ukraine.
The reported strikes followed other Ukrainian attacks in Russia on the same night. Ukraine’s defence forces said they struck the Nizhnekamskneftekhim petrochemical complex and the Nizhnekamsk oil refinery in the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as the Monolit plant in Bryansk Oblast.
