‘Five rockets found their way home’: Russia seems to confirm successful attack on occupied Crimea
Five missiles hit Russian military facilities in temporarily occupied Crimea, Southern Defense Forces spokesperson, Natalia Humeniuk, said on Jan. 31.
"The occupiers themselves have already admitted that five missiles have found a ‘shelter’ in the temporarily occupied Crimea,” she said during a national telethon. “They even marked the places where it happened.”
Russians admitted that they did not have time to disperse the flight crew at the Belbek airfield before the attack, she added.
"The Air Force just confirms that Crimea is Ukrainian, and we are returning something that belongs to us," she said.
The traffic blocking on the Kerch bridge took place due to the reorientation of air defense systems, as the occupiers are trying to improve the protection of strategically important objects, she said.
"No matter how many air defense systems Russia pulls into Crimea, we will find each one and work with each one individually,” Humeniuk said. “We carefully monitor these maneuvers and understand that, in principle, the location of air defense systems in a certain way indicates other objects that are worthy of our attention.”
An air raid alert was declared in temporarily occupied Crimea as explosions rang out on Jan. 31. The occupiers reported the operation of air defenses.
17 Ukrainian missiles were allegedly “destroyed” over the Black Sea and three more over occupied Crimea, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed. "Rocket debris" fell on a military unit in Crimea’s Lyubimivka district, claimed the aggressor country.
The destruction of the Belbek airfield in Crimea was hinted by the Commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk, in the evening. He posted a video showing smoke and a loud explosion and expressed gratitude to everyone who participated in “cleansing Crimea from the Russian presence.”
A communication point at the Belbek airfield in Sevastopol was attacked, Russian Telegram channel ASTRA claimed on Jan. 31.
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