Ukrainian Troops Strike at Taganrog-Central Military Airfield

11 December, 2024 Checkpoint at Taganrog-Centralny Air Base. Source: Google Earth The Armed Forces of Ukraine have struck a military unit of the 5th Aviation Group of the 6955th Guards Aviation Base in Taganrog, Russia.

The ASTRA Telegram channel published the footage. It is reported that the facility is located on Teatralnaya Street on the territory of the Taganrog-Central airfield military camp. The video released from inside the building shows significant damage, including the through destruction of the walls.

"I'm basing this on the fact that there is a stove in the large room (in the video). I know this room.

Then they have a long corridor. But only on the basis of this room, it was a large communal kitchen. And the building is white brick, five stories high.

This is a hotel building, civilians used to live there two years ago, but they were evicted and contract soldiers were moved in as a place to transfer the warehouse. Now there are no civilians there," the source told ASTRA. According to him, since the morning ambulances and cars, presumably with evacuees and the wounded, have been passing by the military unit, and access to the entire territory of the military camp has been closed.

A damaged building on the territory of a military camp.

Photo credits: Google Earth

The Russian Ministry of Defense, in its usual manner, claimed that the impact of "missile fragments" allegedly caused only injuries among the military.

Strike on Taganrog

Militarnyi previously reported that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the aviation plant in Taganrog with ATACMS missiles. The combined missile and drone strike was executed at around 4 am. Local residents reported unusual sounds in the sky, followed by explosions.

According to them, the explosions caused power and heating outages, and a fire broke out on the territory of the aviation plant. The distance from the aviation plant to the front line is about 170 kilometers.

Taganrog Aviation Plant is one of the key Russian enterprises certified to repair and modernize A-50 airborne early warning aircraft.