Kryvyi Rih (during the

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period was also called in ) is a

Ukrainian Air Force The Ukrainian Air Force (, PS ZSU) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the eight Military branch, branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (ZSU). Its current form was created in 2004 by merging the Ukrainian Air Defence Forces into the Air Fo ...

airbase located near

Kryvyi Rih Kryvyi Rih ( ; , ), also known as Krivoy Rog ( ), is a city in central Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Kryvyi Rih Raion and its subordinate Kryvyi Rih urban hromada in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast. The city is part of the Kryvyi Rih Metropo ...

city in south-central Ukraine. The base was home to the 16th Military-Transport Aviation Regiment of the

Soviet Air Forces The Soviet Air Forces (, VVS SSSR; literally "Military Air Forces of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics"; initialism VVS, sometimes referred to as the "Red Air Force") were one of the air forces of the Soviet Union. The other was the Sovie ...

between 1964 and 1979 with the

Antonov An-12 The Antonov An-12 ( Russian: Антонов Ан-12; NATO reporting name: Cub) is a four-engined turboprop transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. It is the military version of the Antonov An-10 and has many variants. For more than thr ...

. along with the 363rd Military-Transport Aviation Regiment between 1946 and 1992 with the

Ilyushin Il-76 The Ilyushin Il-76 (; NATO reporting name: Candid) is a multi-purpose, fixed-wing, four-engine turbofan strategic airlifter designed by the Soviet Union's Ilyushin design bureau as a commercial freighter in 1967, to replace the Antonov An-1 ...

MD. In 2017, in view of the funding and position on increasing combat capabilities, the Air Force Command decided to restore the airfield. Now

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"Kryvyi Rih" is ready to receive all aircraft types that are in service. On 19 September 2023, Russian sources claimed that a

ZALA Lancet The ZALA Lancet (official designation: ''Item 52/Item 51'') is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and loitering munition developed by the Russian company ZALA Aero Group (part of Kalashnikov Concern) for the Russian Armed Forces. It was first unvei ...

conducted a strike against a

MiG-29 The Mikoyan MiG-29 (; NATO reporting name: Fulcrum) is a twinjet, twin-engine fighter aircraft designed in the Soviet Union. Developed by the Mikoyan design bureau as an air superiority fighter during the 1970s, the MiG-29, along with the large ...

fighter stationed at Krivoi Rog, some 70 km from front line on the

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. The MiG was reportedly hit near the cockpit.

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{{Reflist Ukrainian airbases Soviet military air bases in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic