[A strike]

I suspect any competent Russian High Command would order the immediate destruction of EVERY runway in Ukraine.

-fJRoberts-

[familyop]

"I suspect any competent Russian High Command would order the immediate destruction of EVERY runway in Ukraine."

Competent? Then we know that such destruction won't happen. ;)

And Ukrainian pilots can take off and land in the guest countries of their choosing.

[caww]

I read they had done some of that already.....

[Paul R.]

As if they haven’t been trying to already...

Using missiles to crater runways daily to keep them inoperable is a very expensive proposition. Actual bombings by aircraft are much more efficient, except that the US is telling Ukraine where the Russian planes are. Pooty doesn’t dare fly significant bombing raids over parts of Ukraine not under Russian ground occupation.

Speaking of planes and losses, a recent Forbes’ analysis (sometimes plane by plane) concluded that with parts and “pieces of fighter planes” acquisitions from other countries, Ukraine presently has as many if not slightly more MIGS than they entered the war with.

Obviously, slow attrition will eventually run out that supply, but, unless that attrition is considerably increased, there are enough “spare” F-16’s in the world to sustain Ukraine for quite a long while.