Every 24 hours, the Ukrainian Air Force redeploys Su-24 bombers carrying Storm Shadow and SCALP-EG long-range cruise missiles to protect these few aircraft from Russian missile attacks.
As Bild writes, for this in Ukraine, the entire network of Soviet-era airfields was restored and new ones were equipped. Secret runways on highways are also used.
To protect operational airfields, the Ukrainian army used several IRIS-T and Patriot anti-aircraft systems. Also under constant protection are the storage locations of the above-mentioned long-range missiles, which Ukrainian aviation uses very successfully.
It is the successful Su-24 attacks on bridges, warehouses, and command posts that provoke Russian missile attacks on airfields, such as the recent strikes on Starokostyantynove (Khmelnytskyi region), where tactical aviation is based.