Russian Military Installations In Crimea Explode
The latest incidents come exactly a week after mysterious explosions destroyed several aircraft at the Saki Air Base on Crimea.
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/russian-military-installations-in-crimea-explode
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(Strike#1) Shortly after 6 a.m. local time, explosions rocked an ammunition dump at a military unit in the Dzhankoi region in the north of Crimea, apparently damaging key railroad tracks and an electrical substation, Russian media outlets reported ...
The area is about 30 miles from occupied Kherson and is an important railhead for Russian supplies ...
(Strike#2) Russian media reported that a military air field at Hvardeyskye, about 35 miles southwest of Dzhankoi, was also on fire. Christo Grozev, lead investigator for Bellingcat, said in a Tuesday morning Tweet that the base “housed 12 SU-24М and 12 SU-25СМ planes and was integrated with the Russian Navy.” ...
So far, the U.S. has only provided Ukraine with an unpublicized amount of M31 rockets with 200-pound class unitary warheads, which are GPS/INS guided and can hit targets at a distance of around 43 miles (70 kilometers.) ...
As a result, speculation has run rampant about what has been used in these attacks, running from smaller, locally operated, armed drones, to special operations sabotage raids like the ones carried about by the Shaman Battalion - which we profiled here - to the possibility that Ukraine has secretly fielded its own ballistic missile system.
Ukrainian forces, or those loyal to Ukraine, have used small drones in a high-profile attack in Crimea against the Black Sea Fleet headquarters before all this started, at the time we said this was just a harbinger of things to come. Ukraine also possesses an off-the-shelf long-range precision drone attack capability that could be the culprit here. We just don’t know.
