Lutsk is an air base of the

Ukrainian Air Force The Ukrainian Air Force ( uk, Пові́тряні си́ли Збро́йних сил Украї́ни) is the air force of Ukraine and one of the five branches of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Its headquarters are in the city of Vinnytsia. W ...

located near

Lutsk Lutsk ( uk, Луцьк, translit=Lutsk}, ; pl, Łuck ; yi, לוצק, Lutzk) is a city on the Styr River in northwestern Ukraine. It is the administrative center of the Volyn Oblast (province) and the administrative center of the surrounding Luts ...

Volyn Oblast Volyn Oblast ( uk, Воли́нська о́бласть, translit=Volýnsʹka óblastʹ; also referred to as Volyn or Lodomeria) is an oblast (province) in northwestern Ukraine. Its administrative centre is Lutsk. Kovel is the westernmost town an ...

, Ukraine. Previously closed in 2006, the air base was reopened for works in 2014 and since 2018 housed the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade that currently operates

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M/UB and Aero L-39C Albatross aircraft.

History

It was home to 806th Fighter-Bomber Aviation Regiment (806 APIB) which flew

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aircraft as recently as 1992. It currently serves as storage base for

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bombers. From 1945 to 1992, the regiment was part of the 289th Division of the 57th Air Army, then the 14th Air Army, then the Air Forces of the

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, then the 14th Air Army once more. The airport use was abandoned in 2006.NOT SWORN IN: HOW THEY MET THE SEVASTOPOL TACTICAL AVIATION BRIGADE AT A NEW LOCATION
Channel 5 (09/21/2018) In 2018 it was revived and became the home of the 204th Tactical Aviation Brigade, which was before the

2014 Russian annexation of Crimea In February and March 2014, Russia invaded and subsequently annexed the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine. This event took place in the aftermath of the Revolution of Dignity and is part of the wider Russo-Ukrainian War. The events in Kyiv th ...

based in Belbek Airport. The base was the target of Russian airstrikes by Russian armed forces on 27 February and 11 March 2022. In the first attack two aircraft resembling

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were destroyed according to commercial satellite imagery. In the second attack the airbase was completely destroyed according to the town mayor.

References

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806th Bomber Aviation Regiment
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