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Ukrainian Defense Forces hit Russian air defense systems in Crimea overnight - General Staff

Ukrainian Defense Forces hit Russian air defense systems in Crimea overnight - General Staff Photo: illustrated image (Getty Images)
Author: Daryna Vialko

Last night, on June 12, the Defense Forces launched a group missile strike on enemy S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft missile divisions in temporarily occupied Crimea, according to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

According to the General Staff, the group missile strike targeted:

  • An S-300 anti-aircraft missile division near Belbek;
  • Two S-400 anti-aircraft missile divisions near Belbek and Sevastopol.

Hits in the target areas were confirmed. As a result, two radars of the S-300 and S-400 systems were destroyed. Information about the third radar is currently being clarified.

"Additionally, further detonation of ammunition was observed in all three locations of the anti-aircraft missile divisions of the Russian Federation," the General Staff added.

Russia's losses in the war

According to the General Staff, on the night of June 10, Ukrainian soldiers successfully struck an enemy S-400 anti-aircraft missile system near Dzhankoy. Two more S-300 anti-aircraft missile divisions were also hit near Chornomorske and Yevpatoriya.

In particular, according to Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk, at the end of May, Ukrainian soldiers also successfully struck the Kerch ferry, sinking one of the enemy's ferries. British intelligence has described the consequences the enemy may face because of this.