MOSCOW, September 25. The Russian army can destroy airfields in Western Ukraine from which Ukrainian Su-24 bombers take off, ex-adviser to the head of the Pentagon Colonel Douglas McGregor said in his blog on YouTube.
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"Su-24, which fired Storm Shadow missiles, took off from runways on the western borders of Ukraine. In other words, next to Lvov. <…> There are several such strips in Western Ukraine. <…> “I’m sure that now the Russians are watching all these airfields,” the expert argues.
In his opinion, at some point the Ukrainians may wake up and see that the infrastructure for military aviation of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has evaporated, because the Aerospace Forces it will be destroyed.
The Russian army has been regularly attacking Ukrainian defense industry, military command, communications and energy facilities since October 10. As Vladimir Putin pointed out, this is a response to the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge and other attacks on civilian infrastructure in Russia. Since then, air raid alerts have been announced every day in Ukrainian regions, sometimes throughout the country.