Ukraine strikes Russian drone and ship command centers in Crimea

22 April, 12:14 PM
Inside the War
Defense Forces targeted a few enemy objects (Photo: REUTERS/Stringer)

Defense Forces targeted a few enemy objects (Photo: REUTERS/Stringer)

Defense Forces struck several important Russian targets, including the Streletskyi movement control point for Black Sea Fleet warships in Sevastopol, on April 21 and the night of April 22, AFU General Staff reported.

UAV control points in the areas of Korovyakovka and Tyotkino in Russia's Kursk Oblast, as well as the Molniya UAV control point near Dobroliubivka in Kharkiv Oblast, were also hit.

Ukrainian military also struck a Russian unit's control point near the settlement of Vyazovoye in Russia's Belgorod Oblast.

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Strikes were carried out against Russian command and observation posts near Zatyshne in the occupied territories of Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast and Vysokoye in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, according to the General Staff. Furthermore, a concentration of the enemy manpower near the settlement of Hrafske in Donetsk Oblast was hit.

Russian losses and the scale of the damage inflicted are being clarified, General Staff emphasized.

Prymary (Ghosts) special unit of Ukrainian Military Intelligence (HUR) struck two of the aggressor country Russia's large landing ships, Yamal and the Nikolai Filchenkov, in temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of April 19.

Both Russian Black Sea Fleet ships were in the Sevastopol Bay at the time of the strike. The vessels were left inoperable in the attack, HUR reported.

Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reported striking three Russian warships in Crimea — Yamal and Azov large landing ships, and a vessel of an unidentified type — on the afternoon of April 18. Additionally, SBU drones damaged the antenna block of the Delfin communication system, the MR-10M1 Mys-M1 radar system, and fuel tanks at the Yugtorsan oil depot.

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