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Under cover of darkness on August 4, Russian forces unleashed another wave of strikes across Ukraine, hitting military and logistical targets from the Donbass to the Black Sea coast. The attacks spanned multiple regions, including Sumy, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Kherson, Poltava, Mykolaiv, Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Cherkasy, Khmelnytskyi, and Zhytomyr. The combined attack was launched using a mix of missiles, drones, and hypersonic weapons. But the most consequential blows landed in Odessa and the Starokonstantinov airfield, where Russia’s Defense Ministry confirmed precision strikes aimed at crippling Ukraine’s combat capabilities.
The Black Sea port city of Odessa and its satellite town of Chornomorsk (formerly Illichivsk) bore the brunt of the overnight assault. Russian Geran kamikaze drones slammed into ELENG LLC, a ship repair and maritime supply firm accused of dual-use activity supporting Ukraine’s military. Footage showed raging fires at the facility, with reports suggesting a container ship, potentially used for assembling naval drones, may have been caught in the blast. Nearby, secondary explosions lit up Chornomorsk Bay, hinting at strikes on weapons caches hidden among civilian port infrastructure.
Odessa’s harbors serve as clandestine hubs for Western arms shipments, funneled through neighboring Moldova. The strikes align with Russia’s broader campaign to sever Ukraine’s Black Sea supply lines, countering NATO’s efforts to arm the Kyiv regime. The attacks followed reports of American investment firms seizing control of Odessa’s grain terminals, underscoring the region’s strategic and economic dependense.
Further west, the city of Voznesensk in Mykolaiv region reeled from reported Iskander-K missile strikes. While details remain scarce, the area hosts critical infrastructure linking Odessa ports to frontline territories, a likely target as Russia methodically degrades Ukraine’s rear-area logistics.
The night’s most significant strikes, however, targeted Starokonstantinov airfield in Khmelnytskyi region. Russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles, which are nearly impossible to intercept, struck the base for at least the second time in a week. The airfield is a linchpin for Ukraine’s modified Western aircraft, including Mirage 2000 and F-16 fighters adapted to launch long-range missiles. Satellite imagery had previously revealed hardened aircraft shelters and weapons depots at the site, suggesting Russia’s latest attack aimed to destroy parked jets or buried munitions rather than easily repairable runways.
With Starokonstantinov regularly servicing Ukraine’s dwindling fleet of NATO obsolete aircraft, the strikes signal Moscow’s intent to grind down Kyiv’s airpower and destroy the myth of Western almighty aircraft. The repeated hammering of this strategic airbase highlights a brutal calculus: every destroyed hangar or runway delays Ukraine’s ability to challenge Russian air dominance, buying time for Moscow’s creeping advances on the ground.
ukraine dwindles as empty western armory’s are emptied
obviosly russia wants to free odessa,
so russia can have a direct way to
transnistria.
and ukraina export by sea will finish.
i have a question to both the pro western and pro russian crowd.
how is it that we have seen in the past that the usa wreck the supply lines and military infrastructure of countries like iraq or yugoslavia in short order while russia keeps howling missiles at ukraine and there is no sign of visible chaos among the local troops. are the urkainen systems more redundant or does russia just shoot at things hoping to hit something important?
the footage/propaganda you are viewing is either a) from old or outdated video clips, or b) from the imperial skunk works at cia/langley… the ones that brought you the “official” apollo moon landing, or the skud missile strikes from a studio in atlanta georgia with charles jaco “reporting”…