Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) said it struck hangars housing Russian fighter jets at the Saky military airfield in occupied Crimea on Wednesday, July 1. “As part of the 40-day campaign against Russia approved by President Volodymyr Zelensky, the SBU carried out a successful strike on the Saky military airfield in occupied Crimea. The target of the operation was the airfield’s infrastructure, including hangars housing fighter aircraft,” the SBU said.JOIN US ON TELEGRAMFollow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official. Drones scored five confirmed hits on aircraft hangars at the air base, targeting military infrastructure used by Russia’s aviation forces. According to preliminary information released by the agency, two of the hangars contained Su-30 and Su-30SM fighter jets at the time of the attack. A fire later broke out inside the hangar where a Su-30SM was reportedly stationed, which the SBU said indicated the strike had successfully hit its target. “The target of the operation was the airfield’s infrastructure, including hangars with fighter aircraft,” the SBU said in a statement. The agency estimated that each aircraft is worth between $30 million and $50 million, depending on its configuration. And while most frontline, combat zone military airbases operated by modern combat air forces keep their aircraft in hardened aircraft shelters (HAS), Russia has historically relied on dispersing aircraft around its ample territory and keeping aircraft in the open on tarmac aprons or in unprotected hangars.