Kyiv Post

Russia has forward deployed the MiG-31 to a base in Crimea to facilitate launching patrols over the Black Sea on what Putin claims will be nearly permanent patrols to threaten all of Ukraine with Kinzhal missiles.

These aircraft are carriers for Kinzhal hypersonic missiles and, according to the Russians, using them to patrol the Black Sea will allow them to “destroy Ukrainian HIMARS.”

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