Ukraine destroys Russian drone base, cuts enemy communications in Crimea
Photo: Ukrainian Armed Forces struck a number of enemy targets
Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a number of important facilities belonging to Russian forces, including a site used to store and launch drones, command posts, a supply depot and other targets, according to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The strikes were carried out on August 20 and overnight into August 21. Ukrainian forces successfully hit:
- a site for the storage, preparation and launch of attack drones near the city of Donetsk;
- a Russian supply depot in the settlement of Novosilske in temporarily occupied Crimea;
- two command posts — in Zaporizke, Donetsk region, and Kobylne, Zaporizhzhia region.
Defense Forces units also destroyed six ground-based repeaters that Russian forces were using to control Geran/Gerbera-type attack drones in Crimea. Two were hit in Sterehushche, three near Olenivka and one in Chornomorske.
The General Staff explained that such ground-based repeaters transmit control and communications signals between the operator and the drone, allowing Russian forces to extend the range and improve the stability of drone operations.
"Operations against key military targets of the enemy continue. To be continued," the statement said.
It should be recalled that overnight, Ukrainian drones attacked an oil refinery in Perm and the Marinovka military airfield in Russia’s Volgograd region. A Russian Su-34 aircraft was hit.
In addition, a series of explosions were heard across occupied Crimea overnight on August 21. The attack left parts of several settlements without electricity. The largest number of explosions was heard near Simferopol and in the area of the Tavriiska Thermal Power Plant.
