Editor’s note: This story has been updated with more main points on Shahed type drones.

Ukraine hit the Primorsko-Akhtarsk airfield by Russia Krasnodar Krai with drones on February 6, the general personnel reported.

“The blow to the show and the explosions in the target area. A fireplace exploded. The effects of the coup are clarified,” he said.

The airfield, 230 kilometers (142 miles) of the front line, is a key launch site for Russian Shahed type drones used in opposition to Ukraine, said the general staff, and added that it also serves as a storage installation, training, training and maintenance for aircraft. Operating in Zaporizhzhia and Kherson Oblats.

Local Russian telegrams have reported explosions near the airfield after the strike.

“Strikes on the facilities involved in ensuring Russia’s armed aggression against Ukraine and terrorizing the civilian population will continue,” the General Staff added.

Russia is increasingly supported by Shahed drones, capable of travelling up to 2,500 kilometres, to attack Ukrainian infrastructure and residential areas.

Suicide drones are highly cost-effective and simple to deploy when hitting long-range targets. To overwhelm Ukraine’s air defense system, Russia launches Shaheds along with ballistic missiles.

Initially imported from Iran, Russia began the national production of Shahed in 2023, the Yelabuga Factory Manufacturing 2,738 sets that year.

By 2024, production reached more than 5,700 sets in the first few months alone, according to CNN. Known as Geran in Russia, those drones are the cornerstone of Moscow’s long-term strike capabilities.

Despite setbacks, including a December fire at the Alabuga Special Economic Zone warehouse that destroyed $16 million worth of drone components, the facility remains essential to Russia’s drone operations.

Most drone strikes are brought in from Cape Chauda in Crimea, such as yeisk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Kursk Oblast.

Russian drones movements have violated the airspace of neighboring countries, especially Romania, Latvia and Poland, those nations do not interact projectiles.