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Ukrainian forces hit several more Russian targets in occupied Ukraine and Crimea over the past 48 hours. 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces struck an airfield, ammunition depots, and bridges across occupied Ukraine overnight on July 5.

Separately, Robert Brovdi, commander of Ukraine’s Unmanned Systems Forces, said Kyiv had hit 16 power stations across Crimea over the past 48 hours, causing blackouts across the occupied peninsula.

Ukraine regularly strikes military infrastructure deep within Russia and occupied territories in an effort to diminish Moscow’s ability to continue waging its war. Kyiv has stepped up attacks in recent months, with a particular focus on Russian logistics and energy infrastructure.

Ukraine’s general staff said on July 5 that it struck the Hvardiiske airfield in Crimea, two bridges used for logistics in Donetsk Oblast, and ammunition depots in occupied areas of Donetsk, Luhansk, and Kherson Oblasts.

“Hvardiiske airfield is one of the key military airfields of the Russian Federation in the temporarily occupied Crimean peninsula,” Ukraine’s general staff wrote on Telegram.

“It is used for basing operational-tactical and naval aircraft, ensuring combat sorties, logistics, and technical maintenance of aviation equipment,” they added.

Photo: Exilenova Plus/Telegram.

“Ukraine has intensified its long-range drone campaign against occupied Crimea in recent weeks, conducting a coordinated series of strikes aimed at isolating the peninsula from Russian military logistics while systematically degrading its military infrastructure.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukraine’s increasingly frequent drone strikes on occupied Crimea have been made possible by a “new technological stage of the war,” Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on July 1, adding Moscow was finding it increasingly difficult to “resolve one crisis after another.”

Ukraine has intensified its long-range drone campaign against occupied Crimea in recent weeks, conducting a coordinated series of strikes aimed at isolating the peninsula from Russian military logistics while systematically degrading its military infrastructure.

“I think this is connected with a new technological stage of the war and with the ability of Ukrainian drones to use technologies that allow us to carry out these kinds of operations,” Fedorov said during a press briefing with Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson in Kyiv on July 1.

“Crimea has essentially turned into a military base for the Russians, allowing them to continue occupying the south of our country and transfer forces to the east. Therefore, from both a military and logistical perspective, it is an important target for us.”

Fedorov said Ukraine would continue expanding its strike capabilities.

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Photo: John Thys; Igor Ivanko / Getty Images; Vantor satellite image.

“Kyiv has increasingly targeted transport links connecting Crimea with other occupied areas in southern Ukraine as part of a broader effort to complicate Russian supply routes and logistics to front-line troops.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukrainian forces struck bridges linking occupied Crimea with Russian-held territory in mainland Ukraine overnight on June 13. Ukraine’s Da Vinci 1st Separate Assault Regiment confirmed strikes on the Chonhar road bridge, a railway bridge, a pontoon crossing, and military trucks in the area.

“The throughput capacity of the pontoons is low, forcing trucks to queue up for them and become ready targets for us,” the unit said in a statement, adding that the operation was “part of a unified plan” to disrupt Russian logistics routes from occupied Crimea.

Kyiv has increasingly targeted transport links connecting Crimea with other occupied areas in southern Ukraine as part of a broader effort to complicate Russian supply routes and logistics to front-line troops.

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Photo: Ukraine’s 1st Separate Assault Regiment Da Vinci / X

“Ukraine struck Russian radar systems and an S-400 air defense launcher in occupied Crimea overnight on March 15, Ukraine’s General Staff reported.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦

#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost ・・・ Ukraine struck Russian radar systems and an S-400 air defense launcher in occupied Crimea overnight on March 15, Ukraine’s General Staff reported.

According to the statement, Ukrainian defense forces hit the 59N6-E “Protivnik” and 73E6 “Parol” radar stations near the village of Liubknekhivka in Russian-occupied Crimea.

The Protivnik radar is a long-range surveillance system designed to detect and track aircraft, cruise missiles, and ballistic targets at high altitudes. The Parol system is used to identify aircraft as friend or foe within Russia’s air defense network.

Ukrainian forces also struck a launcher belonging to an S-400 “Triumf” air defense system near the settlement of Dalne in Crimea, the General Staff said.

The extent of the damage is still being assessed.

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#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost . . . A Ukrainian attack on occupied Crimea overnight resulted in a ferry used by Russian forces to transport military equipment being “seriously damaged,” the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said on July 23.

It did not specify what was used to carry out the attack but Russia earlier claimed its forces downed 21 Ukrainian drones over Crimea and the Black Sea early on July 23, while local Telegram channels reported explosions on the peninsula.

The drones attacked the ship at the Port of Kavkaz, which lies in the Kerch Strait separating the peninsula from Russia’s Krasnodar Krai, the region’s governor, Veniamin Kondratyev, claimed.

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