Ukraine destroys the air defense shield over Crimea

Today’s destruction of the S-400 in Yevpatoriya, Crimea with kamikaze UAVs & Neptune cruise missiles was already the second such successful operation in recent days.

On August 23, Russian S-400 air defence system & 48Ya6-K1 Podlet-K1 low-altitude surveillance radar used with S-400 AD system were destroyed in Olenivka, Crimea.

Podlet-K1 radar provided control of the air situation over the western part of the Black Sea to Russian forces.

The destruction of the S-400 air defense system on August 23 made a kind of “hole” in the air defense of Crimea.

This allowed Ukraine to target Sevastopol with British Storm Shadow cruise missiles fired from Su-24s.

Russian Navy’s Ropucha-class landing ship Minsk & Kilo-class Rostov-on-Don (B-237) submarine are now beyond repair after these strikes.

This is a difficult, methodical, long, but successful operation conducted by Ukrainian forces.

And it’ll surely continue with the Russian forces not knowing how to respond to these strikes.

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  • DarkThoughts@kbin.social
    10·
    1 year ago

    Yeah. Russia’s biggest mistake was to attack Ukraine. Now Ukraine has zero reasons not to properly fight back for as long as they can and want to, which they can thanks to the global support they’re receiving. Russia really goofed on this one. Imagine they’d just continued their previous operations. Would’ve been slower, but much safer. But I guess Putin gets old and needs something to show for him. Now this failure will be his legacy.