Ukraine has launched another drone attack on Russia’s strategic facilities in annexed Crimea Peninsula. Several cities of the peninsula were hit on the night leading to October 17.
The Special Operations Forces of Ukraine, SOF, struck an oil depot in the settlement of Hvardiiske and the Hvardiiske industrial plant in the settlement of Karierne in the Saky district, the General Staff Ukrainian Armed forces reported on Friday. Two powerful blasts were heard in Simferopol city in Crimea which Russia took in in 2014.. The federal state treasury institution of the Gvardeyskoye combine in Karierne settlement was also struck.
The General Staff also reported strikes on a fuel and lubricant depot belonging to Russian forces in Dzhankoi and on a Nebo-U radar station in Yevpatoriia. In a statement on its Telegram channel, the SOF pledged to continue “taking asymmetric actions to stop the enemy”. In another development, Russian air defences reportedly downed their own Su-30SM fighter jet during an attack to repel Ukrainian drone attack. The crewmembers of the downed plane survived. Russian-annexed Crimea and Ukraine’s occupied territories are frequently attacked by Ukrainian drone attack. Feodosia oil terminal in the peninsula two times this week. Ukraine’s security service on Tuesday said in hit five reservoirs, two electric substations on the peninsula. Crime has been hit hardest by Ukraine’s intensified air raids on Russia’s oil refineries and pipelines that have plunged the country into energy crisis.
