Osint analysts who monitor the development of the Russian-Ukrainian war note the new tactics of the Russian army. The Ukrainian military portal “Militarnyi” analyzes satellite photographs showing one of the Russian military airfields 300 km from the Ukrainian border. The footage shows changes at the Marinovka airfield in the Volgograd region. In the footage you can easily see 12 new hangars, which are the new protective shelter for Su-24 bombers and Su-34 fighter-bombers, which the occupying army uses to attack Ukrainian cities. It is likely that the construction of airfield hangars should provide protection against attacks from UAVs, as well as other weapons that are in the arsenal of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Ukrainian military-political observer of the Information Resistance group Alexander Kovalenko writes that the Russians began installing such structures in the third year of the war.
“Overall, nothing good. Now it will be more difficult to disparage Russian aviation. And here it should be noted that the situation is paradoxical,” says Kovalenko.
According to the observer, if Ukraine had the opportunity to strike Russian airfields on Russian territory starting in 2022, then in 2 years the Ukrainian Armed Forces could completely destroy the Russian Military Space Forces.
“As soon as Ukraine finally got closer to the possibility of obtaining permission for such strikes, Russia began to have protective hangars for aircraft. It took the Russians almost 3 years to come to the need for this concept, just like it took our partners almost 3 years in order to talk about the right to strike at Russian territory,” Kovalenko comes to the conclusion.
At least 10 NATO countries have already declared support for Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory. However, there is still no positive decision from the United States and Germany, Ukraine’s main partners. At the same time, French President Emmanuel Macron called on the West to allow the Armed Forces of Ukraine to strike targets in the Russian Federation, from where the shelling is taking place.
