2022 Saky air base attack

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2022 Saky air base attack
Part of the Crimea attacks (2022–present) during the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Smoke rising from Saky airbase on 9 August 2022
Date 9 August 2022 Location Novofedorivka, AR Crimea, Ukraine (occupied by Russia) Result At least 10 Russian military aircraft destroyed or damaged
Belligerents
Russia	Ukraine
Casualties and losses
According to independent observers: At least 7 military aircraft destroyed and 3–4 damaged According to the MoD of the Russian Federation: One person died, but the equipment completely survived.[not verified in body]	None

2022 Saky air base attack was an event during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, when several large explosions occurred at the Saky airbase in the town of Novofedorivka, Crimea, on 9 August 2022.^[1] The military base was seized by Russian forces during the 2014 annexation of Crimea, part of the Russo-Ukrainian War. The explosions destroyed a number of Russian warplanes and caused substantial other damage. Ukrainian authorities tacitly took responsibility at first, until four weeks after the event, when Valerii Zaluzhnyi, Ukraine's military commander, explicitly said that it had been a Ukrainian missile strike.^[2]

The Saky airbase was also struck on 21 September 2023.^[3]