Kramatorsk Airport, also known as Kramatorsk military airfield, is a military
airfield
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in
Donetsk Oblast
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of
Ukraine
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. The airbase is 3.4 km
SSE from the centre of
Kramatorsk
Kramatorsk (, ; ) is a city and the administrative centre of Kramatorsk Raion in Donetsk Oblast of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Prior to 2020, Kramatorsk was a city of oblast significance. Since October 2014, Kramatorsk has been the ...
and at about 20 km south of
Slovyansk
Sloviansk is a city in Donetsk Oblast, northern part of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. The city was known as ''Tor'' until 1784. While it did not actually belong to the raion itself, Sloviansk served as the administrative center of the S ...
.
The airfield was captured by pro-Russian forces during the early phases of the
War in Donbas
The war in Donbas, or the Donbas war, was a phase of the Russo-Ukrainian War in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine. The war Timeline of the war in Donbas (2014), began in April 2014, when Russian separatist forces in Ukraine, Russian para ...
in 2014.
On 15 April 2014 the airfield was recaptured by the Ukrainian military. Different sources stated the death toll up to 11.
On 10 June 2014 the Ukrainian military claimed that about 40 pro-Russian fighters were killed in a 3-hour battle.
As a result of
shelling, that was carried by pro-Russian forces on 10 February 2015 ten people were injured at the military base.
The airfield was among the first military bases bombarded in the early hours of 24 February 2022, at the beginning of the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
.
See also
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Battle of Kramatorsk
A series of armed skirmishes and confrontations between the Armed Forces of Ukraine and pro-Russian separatists affiliated with the Donetsk People's Republic took place from 12 April until 5 July 2014, and is known as the Battle of Kramatorsk. ...
References
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Former military air bases in Ukraine
Buildings and structures in Kramatorsk
Soviet military air bases in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic