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On May 27, Russian air defense shot down a Ukrainian MiG-29 fighter in the area of Volchansk, one of the main battlefields of the Russian offensive of Volchansk.
According to the reports from the frontlines, a MiG-29 fighter of the Ukrainian Air Force was caught when trying to attack Russian military positions in the city. According to the Russian military sources, the aircraft was destroyed by Russian S-400 anti-aircraft system deployed in the Russian border Belgorod region. Russian air defense forces reportedly fired three missiles at once. Ukrainian aircraft fell south of the city and burned down. According to preliminary reports, the pilots could not survive the attack. No parachutes were spotted in the sky after the strikes.
In total, the attack on the Russian military positions was launched by two Ukrainian fighters that took off in the Poltava region. The crew of the second aircraft rushed to escape from the area after the MiG-29 of their comrades was destroyed.
It is possible that the downed MiG-29 belonged to the Slovak Air Force and was supplied to the Kiev regime. The day before, a former Slovak Mig-29AS with GBU-39B SDB bombs was spotted in the same area. Last year Slovakia transferred 13 MiG-29AS fighters to Ukraine. Ukraine received these aircraft in the spring of 2023. Four of them flew to Ukraine with Ukrainian pilots, the others were transferred by land.
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On the night of May 26, the Russian military launched another wave of precision strikes that mainly targeted Ukrainian military airfields throughout the country. In particular, a military airfield in Starokonstantinov, Khmelnitsky region, came under another massive attack. Su-24M bombers that are carriers of the Storm Shadow and SCALP EG cruise missiles are deployed there. Earlier, the Armed Forces of Ukraine were preparing the Strokonstantinov airfield for the deployment of F-16 fighters from NATO; but they never arrived.
Footage also confirmed damage to the airfield in Zaporozhie which was used by the Ukrainian military. Russian strikes were also reported in the Poltava region, where the Mirgorod airfield is located. Despite the constant Russian strikes on the airfield, it is still used by the Ukrainian Air Force for some operations.
