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| Date: | Friday 16 August 2024 |
| Time: | 16:55 |
| Type: |  Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-29 (9.13) |
| Owner/operator: | 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade, Ukrainian Air Force |
| Registration: | 94 White |
| MSN: | 2960721096 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | Dnipro International Airport, Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast -
 Ukraine
|
| Phase: | Standing |
| Nature: | Military |
| Departure airport: | Dnepropetrovsk Airport (DNK/UKDD) |
On 16 August 2024, a MiG-29 fighter aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force was destroyed in a 9M723 Iskander-M precision missile strike conducted by forces of the Russian Federation. Footage was released of the aircraft being hit was filmed by a Russian reconnaissance drone orbiting the airbase. A number of secondary explosions can be seen, indicating that the aircraft was fueled and combat loaded.
The Russian Ministry of Defence initially claimed that the destroyed aircraft was an Su-24 strike aircraft, but this was later corrected to be a MiG-29.
The loss of the aircraft was officially acknowledged by the public relations service of the Ukrainian Air Force Command, in a statement from press spokesman Yuriy Ignat.
The strike was also acknowledged by Ukrainian People's Deputy Maryana Bezuhla (Independent). Bezuhla was formerly a member of the party "Servant of the People", but later left the party after repeatedly criticising the Ukrainian government, as well as the Ukrainian Armed Forces of systematic corruption and incompetent command. Maryana stated:
"No one from the Air Force Command admitted that there were no air patrols around the airbase, and that a Russian drone was monitoring the base. When the aircraft was being refueled and combat reloaded, it was destroyed."
According to Ukrainian court documentation, the aircraft was spotted by a Pro-Russian partisan near Voznesensk in Mykolaiv Oblast at approximately 15:22 earlier in the day.
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https://t.me/mod_russia/42241
https://tvzvezda.ru/news/20248161951-zkhLX.html
https://t.me/lost_armour/3240
https://www.facebook.com/yuriy.ignat/posts/pfbid02VPKCbsjpnUWnpmSFdX7aaP3xEmVYLAQ2fsbcNF3kGXXzi5JuAH5faQXRyba7Asmsl
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https://t.me/geranium_chronicles/936
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https://t.me/hyevuy_dnepr/75186
https://t.me/hyevuy_dnepr/75192
https://t.me/The_Wrong_Side/17639
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https://verdictum.ligazakon.net/document/123638511
https://verdictum.ligazakon.net/document/128443554
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| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 17-Aug-2024 06:11 | Anon. | Added |
| 17-Aug-2024 11:54 | Anon. | Updated [Time, Total fatalities, Total occupants, Departure airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 18-Aug-2024 06:28 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 28-Apr-2025 11:16 | Anon. | Updated [Source, Narrative, ] |
| 04-Jul-2025 05:44 | Anon. | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, Operator, Source, ] |
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