Governor: Military airfield in Poltava Oblast suffers damage due to Russia's overnight airstrike.

Russian forces launched an intense airstrike targeting Myrhorod military airfield in Poltava Oblast, with the facility's infrastructure and equipment suffering "some damage," Governor Dmytro Lunin reported[1] on June 10. The overnight attack was carried out using ballistic and cruise missiles, as well as Iranian-made drones, Lunin said, without indicating how many were shot down by Ukrainain air defense. No casualties were reported, and it remains unclear the extent of damage at the military airfield located in the usually quiet city of Myrhorod in central Ukraine, known for its natural mineral water and home to roughly 40,000 people before the full-scale war.

The governor said that the fire at the attack site was partially extinguished as of 7:30 a.m. local time and that equipment has been transferred to a safer place. The debris from the shot-down aerial objects damaged eight houses and four cars, he added. While hundreds of kilometers from the eastern or southern front line, Myrhorod airfield suffered similar attacks during Russia's full-scale war.

In Russia's April 2022 missile strike targeting the airfield, for example, Governor Lunin said[2] then that the facility's infrastructure and runway were damaged, and fuel and oil warehouses caught fire. Russia's latest attack on Ukraine's military infrastructure comes as Western media report[3] the launch of a Ukrainain counteroffensive in the southeast. The Ukrainian military has not yet officially confirmed that the long-anticipated operation had begun.

For the past month, particularly in May, Russia has intensified its air assaults on cities far from the battlefield - including Kyiv, causing a few dozen of civilian casualties nationwide.

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Asami Terajima is a reporter at the Kyiv Independent.

She previously worked as a business reporter for the Kyiv Post focusing on international trade, infrastructure, investment and energy. Originally from Japan, Terajima moved to Ukraine during childhood and completed her bachelor's degree in Missouri, U.S.A. She is the winner of the 2023 George Weidenfeld Prize, awarded for "excellent investigative and courageous research activities" as part of Germany's prestigious Axel Springer Prize.

References

1. ^ reported (t.me)
2. ^ said (t.me)
3. ^ report (kyivindependent.com)
4. ^ Saving lives from Russia's flood: Inside inundated, shelled KhersonSince Russia's full-scale war began, first came eight months of terror under occupation, then came seven months of intense shelling across the river, then came the river itself to Kherson.

   Over 24 hours after Russian forces destroyed the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant and its massive... (kyivindependent.com)