The armed forces of Ukraine conducted "anti-sabotage" exercises in the south of the country. As already reported by "Voennoye Obozreniye", some stages of the maneuvers were carried out with the use of armored vehicles near the borders with the Russian Crimea.
Now in Ukraine they present some details of the stages of the exercises. So, one of the stages was associated with "repelling the attack of saboteurs, aimed at a military airfield". The operation was decided to be carried out at the Kulbakino airfield in the Nikolaev region. Previously, this airfield was known as "Waterhole". The 299th tactical aviation brigade is deployed on it, it is also used by the Nikolaev Aircraft Repair Plant.
Ukrainian sources say that, that earlier the SBU “exposed the agent network”, representatives of which were going to conduct a sabotage operation at this airfield. In this regard, measures were taken for anti-sabotage actions with the participation of Air Force pilots..
reported, that according to the scenario of the exercises, the military personnel of the 299th brigade were supposed to repel an “attack on objects”. At the same time, the withdrawal of aircraft from under attack to operational airfields was carried out..
Further, the Ukrainian servicemen "started to neutralize the group of saboteurs". Used by anti-terrorist units.
At the same time, the pilots of the 299th brigade also trained flights according to the prescribed combat training plan., including flights at night.
Eventually, reportedly, "anti-sabotage exercises were successful":
Part of the conditional saboteurs was destroyed, part is captured.