Less than a week after the Ukrainian army attacked the Hiber Corps base near the town of Saki on the Crimean Peninsula, Ukrainian media reported this morning (Tuesday) on another air strike on a base of the Russian Air Force on the peninsula, far from the artillery range of the Ukrainian army and deep in the territory controlled by Russia .
The event started when a recording of a large explosion was uploaded to the web when local surfers claimed that it was an explosion at the Russian Air Force base located south of the city of Dzhankoya.
The Russian authorities claimed that it was an explosion at a switching station of the local electricity grid, the documentation that was distributed afterwards clearly showed sub-explosions of ammunition and missiles.
Media outlets in Ukraine reported that the explosion came from the air force base, which is mainly used by helicopters of the Russian air force, and that missile depots and helicopters were damaged in the attack. Afterwards, the local government in Crimea admitted that an ammunition depot was indeed damaged and that two locals were slightly injured in the explosion. The village of Azovska The neighbor was evacuated.
Explosions at a Russian military base in Crimea, photo: Reuters
Last week, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense announced that in an attack on the Russian Air Force base in Saki in the Crimea peninsula, nine aircraft belonging to the Russian Navy were destroyed.
According to reports in the country's media, six long-range rockets of the Ukrainian army hit the base, which is used by the 43rd Aviation Division of the Russian Navy.
The base was used by the Russian army for a series of airstrikes on the territory of Ukraine during the Russian invasion of the country.
It is important to note that the range of the attack from the nearest Ukrainian territory is more than two hundred kilometers, an unusual figure due to the fact that at this stage the Ukrainian army does not have missiles or rockets with such a range, certainly not those that are capable of precisely hitting targets such as IML warehouses.
It is possible that this is an unusual hit by a "Bayraktar" UAV with an appropriate attack range, which somehow managed to penetrate through the dense Russian air defenses around the Crimean Peninsula. Alternatively, it is possible that it is a "Tochaka" ballistic missile that is in the hands of the Ukrainian army and holds In a hit range approaching that of Saki's base, but this is a weak possibility
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