Recently I was updating my list using info from the memorial of the fallen airmen from the 39th Helicopter Regiment. There are 16 names all together and they are as follows:
1st and 2nd are major Igor Markelov and major Sergei Emelyanchik. They perished on 3 March 2022 together with their Mi-28.
So far, no Mi-28 wreckage has been found that can be matched to their date of death. They are counted on the list here https://t.co/5ze535uDImfacebook.com/permalink.php?…
3rd and 4th are podpolkovnik Yuri Orichak and starshiy leytenant Eldar Timushev. They perished on 5 March 2022 in their Mi-24.
I made a post about them here Most likely they are related to the loss of the Mi-24VM s/n RF-13017, 22 blue, downed near Bashtanka, Mykolaiv Oblast. https://t.co/8uaoj9yh87 https://t.co/vbWe7TBfhrtinyurl.com/pxsrufw5 tinyurl.com/437pky9m
Another likely possibility is Mi-24VM s/n RF-9xxxx downed near Kalinovka, Mykolaiv Oblast. https://t.co/RSPl7X06qWtinyurl.com/3t44uj47
5th and 6th are kapitan Andryus Kyatvirtis and starshiy leytenant German Zakharov. They perished on 5 March 2022 in Mi-8AMTSh together with...
7th, kapitan Ivan Parfyonov. In the same incident kapitan Vadim Alaev (10th) was badly burned, I will write about him a little later.
5th, 6th, 7th and 10th (made a post about them here ) where downed in two Mi-8AMTSh helicopters, RF-91164 https://t.co/cJgQpnauE3 and RF-91165 https://t.co/GpU83W687J in the area of Kalinovka, Mykolaiv Oblast. I have no idea who was in which. https://t.co/ZWEghaCDtCtinyurl.com/59kaz99a tinyurl.com/yckkzr4v tinyurl.com/5bc5scfb
8th and 9th are kapitan Ivan Afanasyev and starshiy leytenant Sergei Konoplev. They perished on 8 March 2022 in a Ka-52 crash some 5 kilometers from the Zernograd Air Base, Rostov Oblast, Russia.
Thanks to GE Pro sat imagery from 4 September 2024 we can see that over a year after the attack, two out of the three damaged Il-76s were still at the base and had not been repaired.
Throughout 2024, the Russians periodically moved the two damaged Il-76s around the base, but in March 2025, they grew tired and stored them in more or less the same place.
On 9 July 2025, the Russians carried out a massive airstrike on the Ozerne Air Base, Zhytomyr Oblast.
A lot of heat signatures detected by the NASA FIRMS were located near or over the aircraft revetments in the NW area of the base. In the Maxar high-res sat photo from 27 August 2024, seven Su-27s (possibly some retired) are visible parked in these revetments.
The revetment at 50.171581, 28.724841 received a direct hit. If any aircraft was parked there, it was completely destroyed.
Almost 5 minutes worth of FPV UAV attacks on Russian Air Force aircraft in several different air bases! No time right now, so I only watch it once, will do a thread later. Some new ones damaged! As far as I can see no new destroyed ones.
I will describe all the attacks in the same order as they were edited into the film. I'm not sure if they were edited chronologically. Timestamps in brackets mark the start and end of recording from a single FPV UAV.
Olenya. 1: Tu-95MS RF-94257 destroyed at 68.145251, 33.449846. At least 3 UAVs used (0:02-0:06, 0:06-0:10, 0:24-0:31), first 2 did not detonate or made a little damage, the 3rd struck the right spot. Moment of the explosion was recorded by another UAV flying nearby (0:31-0:36).
Another attacked target is Belaya Air Base, Irkutsk Oblast, Russia.
Two pillars of smoke are rising from the Tu-22M parking area. Likely two Tu-22M bombers were struck, here 52.896441, 103.580821 and possibly here 52.900559, 103.574192 (or in the one of nearby revetments). Maxar satellite imagery taken on 20 September 2024 for better orientation.
A Tu-95 was attacked at 52.916314, 103.564649. I think in the last (4th) photo it is the third pillar of smoke from the right. First two on the right are coming out from the mentioned Tu-22M parking area.
First of all, today's attacks on multiple Russian air bases were carried out by FPV UAVs. The drones where hidden in the ceilings of cargo containers that were transported on the trucks to the vicinity of the targets. This will go down in history.
Let's see how things are going at the Olenya Air Base near Olenegorsk, Murmansk Oblast, Russia.
1: Tu-95 burning at 68.140032, 33.444580. Hard to say whether it was destroyed or damaged. Let's hope for more images. For now I will count it as damaged.