The footage clearly exhibits that the hangar of the airport, which is in any other case thought-about notably small, was hit. The whole hangar was destroyed in the assault, and it appears that two of the three biplanes in the airport space suffered minor injury.
Russian forces arrange a base in the important hangar at Tarasivka Airfield in Kherson Oblast. Footage of Ukrainian forces flattening mentioned Russian base at Tarasivka Airfield with 2 JDAM-ERs: pic.twitter.com/J41dlv1JAa
— OSINTtechnical (@Osinttechnical) November 20, 2023
The sort of the plane is in any other case troublesome to decide, it most carefully resembles the An-2 single-engine, biplane, which took off for the first time in the Soviet Union in 1947. Later, it was broadly utilized in civil (spraying, firefighting) and navy fields (battle and transport).
As the pro-Ukrainian accounts additionally be aware, the goal was most likely the hangar, not the airfield, which is unusable for extra critical fight plane, or the ageing and maybe inoperable biplanes positioned on it. As the crow flies, the goal is 35 kilometers from the present entrance line.
The cowl picture is an illustration. Cover picture supply: Maxym Marusenko/NurPhoto by way of Getty Images
