Ukraine’s elite “Ghosts” unit said it destroyed a Russian MiG-29 fighter jet at the Kacha military airfield in Crimea.
The MiG-29 is a Soviet-era aircraft used for air-to-air combat and limited ground attacks with an estimated unit price of $25 million based on data from the early 2000s.
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“HUR special units continue to systematically weaken Russia’s layered air-defense network, dismantling radars, missile systems, and now fighter aircraft,” Ukraine’s military intelligence (HUR) said in a statement on Telegram on Thursday, Dec. 4.
According to HUR, the operation also struck an Irtysh airfield radar complex near Simferopol in occupied Crimea. The ground-based radar tracks and monitors aircraft, making it a key component of Russia’s air-defense network.
Earlier in November, the “Ghosts” carried out a series of precision strikes that crippled some of Russia’s weaponry.
Nov. 22, HUR reported that the “Ghost” unit managed to conduct multiple successful attacks, targeting some of the most valuable components of Russia’s layered air-defense network, including:
a Ka-27 naval multi-purpose helicopter a “Lira-A10” airfield radar system a 55Zh6U “Nebo-U” radar a dome-structured “Nebo-SV” radar a P-18 “Terek” radar
Before that, on Nov. 17, the “Ghosts” targeted more Russian systems on the Donbas front, destroying a Tor-M1 short-range surface-to-air missile system, a 55K6 command post for an S-400 air-defense complex, and a 9S18M1-3 radar station used in the Buk-M3 missile system.
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