#Ukraine: The Ukrainian Air force is still alive- seen here are two Ukrainian Su-27 striking Russian facilities on the famous Snake Island in the Black Sea, in remarkable footage filmed by a TB-2 drone.
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 7, 2022
As we can observe, there is serious damage. pic.twitter.com/ogN3gOU8uJ
The Ukrainian military has released aerial footage of strikes on a Russian vessel and structure on Snake Island, which has been occupied by Russia since late February.
— Sky News (@SkyNews) May 8, 2022
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#Ukraine: Ukrainian TB-2 drones continue to strike Russian forces on Snake Island.
— 🇺🇦 Ukraine Weapons Tracker (@UAWeapons) May 8, 2022
This time, an Mi-8 helicopter was destroyed, just as troops were disembarking. pic.twitter.com/Y7MO4MiQRN
Warzone/The Drive: Ukraine Strikes Back: Su-27s Bomb Occupied Snake Island In Daring Raid
The Flankers flew extremely low over the water and popped up for a toss bombing run, hitting multiple targets in a single pass. Jaw-dropping footage released Saturday reportedly shows two Ukrainian Air Force Su-27 Flankers making a high-speed, low-level bombing run on Russian-occupied Snake Island located in the western Black Sea.
Yet another Ukrainian Bayraktar TB2 drone caught the strike on video, showing a tight shot of the island from the west. Two Su-27s enter very low from the south — lower than the lighthouse on the island’s southern point, while dropping infrared countermeasure flares.
A southern approach makes sense both because of the guidepost the lighthouse provides to line up on target and that more likely than not, Russian defenders on the island will be primarily focused on looking north and west toward the Ukrainian coastline.
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WNU Editor: The Russian Ministry of Defense is claiming the opposite. Because the island is difficult to defend it has been deserted, but when Ukrainian forces landed on the island to reclaim it the Russian military quickly launched attacks that destroyed the Ukrainian forces involved in the operation (see tweet below):
Russian MfD briefing on this:
— Moon of Alabama (@MoonofA) May 7, 2022
"The following have been shot down in the air near Zmeinyi Island: 1 Ukrainian Su-24 bomber, 1 Su-27 fighter jet, 3 Mi-8 helicopters with paratroopers and 2 Bayraktar-TB2 UAV. The Ukrainian amphibious assault boat Stanislav has also been destroyed." https://t.co/41LafhckLf
Update: A regular reader of this blog just emailed me to say that he has a problem with the bombing run of the two Ukrainian Su-27 in the first video. They only released one flare each (when they would be releasing scores of flares in such an attack), and that the second aircraft flew right over the massive explosion. Not a wise distance between the two aircraft.
Update #2: I can understand why Ukraine would love to retake Snake Island. It would be a huge propaganda win for Ukraine if they could retake the island on the eve of Russia's Victory Day celebrations.
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