Massive explosions rip through Russian air base home to Putin’s fighter jets as Ukraine launches ten ATACMS missiles

UKRAINE pelted a key Russian air base with ten missiles in an overnight onslaught.

The Belbek airfield in occupied Crimea was struck near Vladimir Putin’s Black Sea headquarters in a humiliating blow to the despot.

Missile attack at strategic Belbek military airfield in occupied Crimea

One of Russia’s FSB military equipment factories was also hit in an attack yesterdayEast2West

Some ten ATACMS were unleashed on the annexed peninsula in a “massive attack”.

Putin’s regime was forced to admit they had been hit but blustered that the attack was “repelled”.

Despite the claims, Ukrainian monitoring group Crimean wind reported: “An hour after the end of the missile attack on the Belbek airfield, the number of fires in the aircraft parking area became many times larger.

“And the fires themselves became stronger.”

There was reported damage to the runway. 

Local residents confirmed fires at the base, it was reported.

Putin’s lapdog in Sevastopol, governor Mikhail Razvozhayev raged that an effort was underway to “repel an attack by Ukrainian Nazis”. 

He claimed: “According to preliminary reports, air defences have already downed several projectiles over the sea and near Belbek airfield. 

“All the city services have been put on high alert. 

“Members of the Sevastopol rescue service have put out a fire caused by falling projectile fragments near the village of Polyushko.”

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