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Olenya air base

Olenya air base

Visoky, Murmansk Oblast
40th Mixed Aviation Regiment (unit # – 36097)

Belongs to the Long Range Aviation Command (HQ in Moscow)

Tu-22M3 long-range strategic bombers (https://bmpd.livejournal.com/3506678.html)

MiG-31K attack aircraft (https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/7234431)

In August, drones struck the Soltsy military airfield in the Novgorod region, 800 km from the Ukrainian border. According to intelligence, two strategic Tu-22M bombers were destroyed, and two other aircraft were damaged. After that attack, the Russians relocated their aviation to the Olenya airfield (Murmansk region).

” For instance, Olenya in the Murmansk region, 1700 km from the border, from where Tu-95 bombers take off and can attack all of Ukraine.”