Russia-Ukraine (March 16): Ukraine’s Military Says It Hit Kherson Airport

Russia-Ukraine (March 16): Ukraine’s Military Says It Hit Kherson Airport
Smoke rising after an explosion in Kyiv on March 16, 2022. Aris Messinis/AFP via Getty Images
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Ukraine’s Military Says It Hit Kherson Airport

Ukrainian military forces have dealt a punishing blow to the airport in Kherson, which Russian troops had seized early in the war, the General Staff said late Wednesday. It said the Russians were trying to remove any surviving military equipment.

Ukraine’s military said it hit the airport on Tuesday. Satellite photos taken afterward by Planet Labs PBC and analyzed by The Associated Press show helicopters and vehicles on fire at the airbase.