[FtrPilot]

💥 Ukrainian air-launched cruise missiles struck the Belbek military airfield in occupied Crimea, destroying two Su-27 and one Su-30 aircraft.

12 Russian soldiers killed, 10 injured.

https://twitter.com/igorsushko/status/1752780824834154918

According to RU air defense, 24 missiles were fired, 5 made it to the target.

[PIF]

also at
https://t.me/s/kremlin_secrets

[ETCM]

According to RU air defense, 24 missiles were fired, 5 made it to the target.

Feeding that into my Russian to Truth translator/decoder, I get "6 missiles were fired, 5 of them struck their target".

The first MoD claim was that all missiles were shot down, and there was no damage. Then someone near the airfield posted the video of a missile striking Belbek, in a straight line with 2 other impacts, and heavy smoke rising from the area.

Sadly, France and UK don't have large enough inventories of these missiles to properly supply Ukraine. They should have thousands of them, not a few hundred. Same with Germany and the Taurus. ATACMS would help fill in the gap, at least for a while. But Europe needs to increase production of long range strike weapons, or they will have none for a larger conflict.