Ukrainian air force commander says Russian military duped by realistic models

Ukraine’s air force commander said on Saturday his forces had duped Russian troops into deploying missiles against sophisticated models put in place to look like military targets.

Commander Mykola Oleshchuk, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said the models depicted fighter aircraft and a surface-to-air missile battery.

 They were put in place at an airfield near the central city of Kriviy Rih and a district of the Black Sea port of Odesa.