The Ukrainian army said on Monday that it had killed the commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Admiral Viktor Sokolov, as a result of a missile attack on the fleet’s headquarters in Sevastopol on Friday as part of Operation Crab Trap. organized by special forces, AFP reports.
As a result of the air strike, “34 officers were killed, including the commander of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia”, “105 other occupiers were injured”, and “the headquarters building cannot be repaired”, reported the Ukrainian special forces, Agerpres notes. .
According to Moscow, its anti-aircraft missile system in Crimea shot down five Storm Shadow missiles during the Ukrainian attack on Friday, but another such missile hit the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. The Ministry of Defense of Russia subsequently stated in its statement that the Russian serviceman is considered missing.
Ukrainian Air Force Commander Mykola Olestiuk publicly praised the pilots of the Ukrainian planes that launched the missiles in this operation.
“We promise that there will be more,” added the same commander, after the Ukrainian army has recently attacked Russian military facilities on the Crimean peninsula almost daily with missiles and aerial or ground drones.
Ukraine used Franco-British Storm Shadow/Scalp missiles launched by Su-24 aircraft and Neptun anti-ship missiles, manufactured in Ukraine and adapted to hit ground targets, in these attacks.
Russia says it repels Ukrainian airstrikes
Russia claims to be able to shoot down most of these missiles and disable the drones with electronic warfare or precision strikes, but some still hit the target.
An amphibious ship and a submarine of the Russian Black Sea Fleet were damaged as a result of a missile attack on the Sevastopol shipyard on the night of September 13.
The following night, the Ukrainian army struck a Russian S-400 “Triumph” anti-aircraft complex near the city of Yevpatoria in Crimea with drones and missiles.
But last week, a new Ukrainian daytime attack with eight Storm Shadow missiles failed miserably: five missiles were shot down by a Russian anti-aircraft system and the others missed their targets.
Smoke screens for the protection of the Crimean peninsula
To protect their military facilities in Crimea, the Russian military also began using smoke screens and advanced electronic warfare systems.
Russian territory is also increasingly becoming the object of Ukrainian drone attacks, which Kyiv uses as a tactic of asymmetric warfare.
According to a source in the Ukrainian military intelligence, quoted by the daily newspaper “Ukrainian Pravda”, a subsidiary of the EFE agency, several commanders of the 14th aviation regiment of the Russian army were killed as a result of a Ukrainian drone attack carried out on Sunday at an airfield in the Kursk province of Russia.
The source claims that the drone killed or injured a group of pilots, airfield workers and a representative of Russia’s FSB military counterintelligence.
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