It was the Iranians who launched the first Shahed drones at Ukraine. Russian operators did not exist, they were trained to do this — Zelensky
— KyivPost (@KyivPost) 12 mars 2026
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It was the Iranians who launched the first Shahed drones at Ukraine. Russian operators did not exist, they were trained to do this — Zelensky
16/ "Until Russian aviation, instead of being an appendage of the Ground Forces, assisting their advance with airstrikes on positions along the front line,…"
15/ …lasting several days in several districts. This is why all non-frontline military airfields in Ukraine will continue to operate, just like Starokostyantyniv.
13/ …from it and launch cruise missile strikes against the Russian rear, as they did yesterday in Bryansk. The airfield continues to operate as before.
14/ "Add to this the seasonal annual war with Ukraine's power grid, which, over the past four years, has also failed to be completely dealt with, despite the colossal investment of manpower and resources in the strikes, the biggest impact of which was a power outage…
12/ "This is precisely why, for four years now, dozens of missiles and hundreds of drones have been fired at the Starokostyantyniv airfield [in western Ukraine] in an attempt to hit the aircraft based there and their shelters, while Ukrainian Su-24Ms still regularly take off…
7/ "In this regard, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are fundamentally no different from the Russian Aerospace Forces, but the latter are unable to engage Russian fighters in aerial combat due to the inferiority of their equipment and weapons.
5/ "And that's all true. There's just one problem: Russian aircraft can do all this only from above territory controlled by the Russian Armed Forces, or, even better, from several dozen kilometers away from the front line.
3/ 'Military Informant' discusses why the Russian Aerospace Forces are still unable to achieve air superiority over Ukraine after over four years of full-scale war:
2/ Ukraine's aviation situation is starkly different to that of Iran's, despite facing a theoretically more powerful opponent. The Ukrainian Air Force is not only still flying in substantial numbers but has expanded its capabilities with the addition of Western aircraft.
