Ukraine announces targeting headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea

 Ukrainian army announced that it targeted, on Wednesday, the command center of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Crimean Peninsula, while a US official said that Washington is preparing to announce important additional military support to Kyiv.

The Ukrainian army said that the attack on the Russian fleet headquarters was successful, without providing details.

For his part, Andrei Yusov, a Ukrainian military intelligence official, said in statements to television that the attack on the Russian fleet in Crimea was a planned act.

Channels from Crimea on the Telegram application reported explosions on the peninsula and published pictures showing thick smoke. Ukrainian accounts on the “X” website (formerly Twitter) also published a video clip of what they said were British “Shadow” missiles on their way to Crimea.

Before the Ukrainian announcement of targeting the headquarters of the Russian fleet, Mikhail Razvogayev, the governor of the city of Sevastopol in the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed in 2014, announced that missile defenses had thwarted a missile attack on the city that houses the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

In recent weeks, Ukraine has intensified its attacks in Crimea, using drones and drone boats to strike Russian bases and ships, and Ukrainian intelligence sources spoke of carrying out landing operations on the Crimean coast.

Moscow warned yesterday that it would respond forcefully to the Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean Peninsula.

Also in field developments, the Ukrainian army announced on Wednesday that it had destroyed 17 of 24 Iranian-made Shahd 131 and Shahd 136 drones that carried out attacks on several areas last night.

The governor of the Poltava region (central) spoke of a fire breaking out in an oil refinery after it was targeted by Russian missiles.

The governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region (central) also announced that the Nikopol region was subjected to Russian bombing for the second night in a row, noting that the bombing caused material damage.

Ukrainian officials said that Ukrainian defenses shot down two Russian drones over the region.

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Yesterday, Ukrainian drones attacked warehouses in the Lviv region (west), and the Ukrainian authorities said that some of the targeted warehouses contained aid.

In Kherson (south), Ukrainian sources reported that two people were killed and others injured in a Russian army bombing.

In Russia, a fire broke out this morning in a fuel tank in the Adler area near Sochi Airport on the Black Sea. Russian news sites reported that the fire broke out in the tank and spread over a distance of 100 square meters after an explosion sounded, the causes of which are not yet known.

Meanwhile, an American official said that the United States will announce a new military aid package for Kyiv tomorrow, Thursday, on the occasion of the visit of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to Washington, where he will meet with President Joe Biden.

Since the outbreak of the war in late February 2022, Washington has provided more than $40 billion in aid to Kyiv, and this aid has included various weapons, including howitzers, Patriot systems, drones, and cluster munitions, and it is expected that Ukraine will soon obtain American Abrams tanks.

In this context, Reuters quoted Ukrainian soldiers near the Russian-controlled city of Bakhmut as saying that they need advanced Western weapons similar to the long-range American “HIMARS” missile system to make further progress on the eastern front.

Reuters noted that while some Ukrainian units obtained modern Western weapons, other units still depend largely on Soviet weapons such as Grad launchers.

Reuters reported that Ukrainian fighters on this axis are more optimistic than before, noting that the Ukrainian army announced a few days ago its control over the villages of Klychevka and Andreivka, south of Bakhmut.

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The ongoing Ukrainian counterattack since June 4 faced criticism from some Western officials, and Kyiv responded that its forces were advancing steadily against Russian minefields and fortifications that had been built over months.

Source: Agencies