https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2025/03/27/the-triple-tap-raid-on-the-engels-bomber-base-cost-russia-96-billion/

$960 million worth of equipment destroyed, so 0.7% if Russia's entire (official) military budget lost in a single set of attacks.

In fairness, getting to the point where Ukraine could repeatedly hit of Russia's biggest and more important airbases certainly took a lot of preparation destroying anti-air systems between Ukraine and that airbase. But still, impressive.

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> According to the Ukrainian general staff

Are you serious?

He's a "intelligence" asset. What else would you expect?

it is already confirmed by the independent osinters

Ukrainians themselves came up with 886M of TOTAL damage inflicted with strikes into Russia for the entire SMO. So now suddenly they hit it big with one single strike and doubled the damage and as proof we get to see smoke plumes with no noticeable secondary explosions?

https://x.com/legal0ve/status/1904612555345060299

I absolutely understand the need to come with stories of lucky strikes to "boost morale" especially when the front is about to collapse. But outside observers engaging in self hypnosis is a different thing.

"no noticable secondary explosions"

Dude, we have solid evidence there was a massive shockwave that damaged buildings hundreds of meters outside the base. Just look at the videos. Obviously, Ukraine blew up a lot of Russian explosives; nothing Ukraine can deliver has that much punch.

> when the front is about to collapse

can you explain how you came to this conclusion? for example russians have been trying to take Pokrovsk for about 8 months now

the best peace initiative of this war

Imagine if Ukraine was also able to hit the production supply chain for that equipment.