{"id":34585,"date":"2026-08-28T16:32:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=34585"},"modified":"2026-08-28T16:32:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T16:32:25","slug":"sbu-precision-strike-permanently-disables-strategic-bomber-at-engels-airfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=34585","title":{"rendered":"SBU Precision Strike Permanently Disables Strategic Bomber at Engels Airfield"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) conducted a successful long-range strike against the Engels-2 airbase, hitting a Tu-95MS strategic bomber. The targeted fleet of heavy bombers has repeatedly served as the primary platform for Russian missile attacks directed at non-combatants and civilian housing across Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The strike scored a direct hit on the aircraft&#8217;s wing structure while the bomber was assigned to operational training missions. Due to the extensive damage inflicted during the explosion, the multi-million-dollar warplane is completely unrecoverable and permanently removed from service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disabling strategic platforms at their home bases directly neutralizes Russia&#8217;s capacity to launch standoff missile waves. Ukrainian forces maintain focus on eliminating legitimate military targets and aviation infrastructure driving the ongoing invasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special units of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) conducted a successful long-range strike against the Engels-2 airbase, hitting a Tu-95MS strategic bomber. The targeted fleet of heavy bombers has repeatedly served as the primary platform for Russian missile attacks directed at non-combatants and civilian housing across Ukraine. The strike scored a direct hit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34587,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34585\/revisions\/34587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}