CrimeaPRESS reports:
Late the night before, the Crimean peninsula was again subjected to a missile attack. On approach to Sevastopol, all air targets were shot down, but debris from Western missiles still caused minor damage to the city and its citizens.
On May 15, at about 11 p.m., an attempt by the Kyiv regime to carry out a terrorist attack using American ATACMS operational-tactical missiles against targets on the territory of the Russian Federation was thwarted. Five operational-tactical missiles were destroyed by duty air defense systems over the territory of the Republic of Crimea— reported the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said:
The Sevastopol Rescue Service received information from residents about the following damage. In one of the TSN SNT on the North Side, two private houses and a car were damaged by fragments of a downed rocket. In another TSN, 6 windows in a house were damaged by the blast wave. No people were hurt. This is the main thing. The type of downed missiles is being determined. No undetonated submunitions have been detected at this time.
Telegram channel “Rybar” clarifies: the evening attack on Crimea (Sevastopol) was combined. The attack involved both drones and ballistic missiles.
The first wave of drones was a distraction (at least judging by the tactics): several drones from Odessa headed towards Sevastopol. At the same time, unmanned boats were launched from the southern part of the Odessa region. At 22.50 air defense units worked on three targets near the Round Bay of Sevastopol. Another object was shot down over Simferopol. At the same time, several UAVs were recorded to the west of Belbek: they were probably used not for strikes, but for target designation and missile guidance.
Around the same time, the enemy launched several ATACMS missiles from the Yavkino area in the Nikolaev region. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, five missiles were shot down over the Belbek airfield. An object at the airfield was hit by shrapnel, footage of which was again shown on Ukrainian public pages.
Uncrewed boats leaving in large numbers were noted both at Tarkhankut and at Chernomorskoye. One of them was destroyed north of Chernomorskoye — target designation was carried out from a Russian drone. However, a significant part of the BECs never approached the peninsula: with a high probability they are in the waiting area (as has happened more than once). And in the coming days we will hear about them again.
At the moment, the RQ-4B drone is on duty in the western part of the Black Sea, for which this is a rather non-standard area. It can both evaluate the results of a strike on Belbek and track new targets, for example, for the use of BECs,” notes “Rybar”.
Experts believe that such tactics of constant massive and combined strikes are aimed at forcing our aviation to relocate to more distant bases, thereby increasing the response time to an alarm and clearing the airspace of Crimea before more massive attacks.
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