A S-300V surface-to-air missile system on display at the 2nd International Exhibition “Oboronexpo-2014” as part of the International Forum “Engineering Technologies 2014” in Zhukovsky, Moscow Region. (Photo ITAR-TASS/ Sergei Savostyanov)
The Russian Ministry of Defense has provided additional details on the Ukrainian attack that targeted the Crimean Peninsula late on May 23.
In a statement, the ministry said that Russian air defenses intercepted three of the American-made MGM-140 ATACMS tactical ballistic missiles launched by Kiev forces during the attack over Crimea. It added that two Ukrainian drones were shot down over the region of Belgorod at around the same time.
The ministry also revealed that seaborne drones launched by the Ukrainian Navy were discovered heading towards the Crimean in the Black Sea.
Three of the drones were destroyed from the standard weapons of the Black Sea Fleet naval aviation, according to the ministry.
During the attack around 20 explosions were reported in the vicinity of the city of Simferopol, presumably attributed to cluster munitions carried by ATACMS missiles.
Simferopol is the capital of Crimea, which voted to rejoin Russia in 2014 after the United States-sponsored regime change in Kiev.
“As a result of a missile attack by the enemy on the peninsula in the Simferopol region, two bystanders were killed,” Aksyonov wrote on his Telegram channel, expressing condolences to the families and friends of the victims.
The governor added that an “empty commercial property” near the city of Alushta was struck and that emergency personnel have been deployed to the scene.
The Kiev regime intensified attacks on Crimea and other Russian regions in recent weeks in an attempt to make up for the recent defeats of its forces.
The response to the latest attack by Kiev forces will likely be fierce. The Russian military could launch another series of missiles and drone strikes against military and energy infrastructure in Ukraine in the coming few days.
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the best retaliation would be the complete destruction of the energy infrastructure in odessa & odessa oblast
make no mistake these are nato attacks on russia, and it’s way past time russia treated them that way,all nato aircraft in the black sea area need to be shot down including intel drones, nato shipping should also be a target, stop playing nice with those bastards.
if we ever see a war around taiwan i am curious if the chinese will watch their ships be sunk and planes shot down by us forces or not. if china does not dare to react then the real power scale on this world is much more in favour of the usa then we believe. if they do then its just russia thats afraid to do something.
it would be a full-scale war against the usa, at that time no one else has the power there to wage war against china. and usa would have no realistic chances. so the question is irrelevant. russia came to protect the dpr and lpr areas. it is in russia’s interests to avoid escalation because russia and brics are having a good upswing season in the state economy.
just of all the intelligence that russia is also getting back, by placing decoys that need decommissioning in the black sea? if only we could see the bigger picture, we might have a better understanding of it all.
sorry left out think, in first sentence.
decapitate the illegit kyiv presidency and/or make odessa port totally unusable to the nazi’s .
so hope they do it, before ukraine decides they need to negotiate.
while russia and their brother slavs kill each other, nato and the west sit back unharmed. in time they will move in and destroy a demoralized weak russia.
and thereby destroying themselves western europe and north america as it escalates to a defcon 1 scenario!
and unlike the u.$. the russians will let their own people (the 1 visa carrying russians) know when that is ready to play out…
no winners in this game!
none wants to be brother of rooskies.
ukrainians have very good reasons to hate and despise warmongering russia.
will see you in hell on top of those mushroom cloud$
1/4 why? what were the borders of ukraine like prior to 1654? 1922, 1945 come to that? what exactly did ukraine do, to help themselves after the fall of the soviet union? who exactly are the warmongers? $oro$ went to ukraine, 1992, in order to help the daughter of the ukrainian s s propagandist and mother of the canadian politician, chrystia freeland, to write the ukraine constitution, post fall of the soviet union.
2/4 clintons arrived in 2004, with their good mate $oro$ and the first orange colour revolution kicked off. 2006, senator obama turns up, with a briefcase full of $us and persuades the idiots to dispose of their domestic arsenal. the soviet stock of nookes were sold in the 90s, under the guise of non-nuclear, peace deals.
3/4 2013, the cookie monsters nuland and mccain turn up in kiev, with baskets of cookies and georgian/blackwater mercenaries. 21 february the president of ukraine agrees to stand down, witnessed by the foreign ministers of poland, france and germany, in return for bringing the elections, due later that year forward and a peaceful transition.
4/4 awaiting approval.
p.s. that the west would not move an inch into eastern ukraine, low and behold they are now encircling russia. why are western government funded ngos so upset that sovereign nations do not want them interferring in state affairs? how many colour revolutions do they demand? yet russia is the bogeyman?????? seriously?
wrong as usual my oversized buddy, slavs will march together to the west for second and definitive time, to show you how to be a real man. and don´t mind america, for them we have thousands of nukes.
for how many centuries have the creators of the bolsheviks and nazis been trying to do that? fail each and every time.
what began as a joke among the global south as the west fighting russia down to the last ukrainian turned out to be truth. its sadder than that, it the actual policy position of western zombies. that’s how predictable they have become. it means 18 year olds can predict western polcy makers and their mistakes well in advance
to get ukraine depopulated so they can resettle khazaria is one of the war goal of zelinsky and his former mentor, funder and funder of asov kholomoisky.
not just zelinsky, but boris johnson as well. remember his grandfather, the turk and his grandmother who was one of the turkic nomads, living in north caucasia? why did he invite azov, including those who were sent to turkey, post capture, to address parliament? who created the nazis and who created the bolsheviks?
bojo the idiot clown? his latest stunt is unfolding an azov flag with a wolf’s hook and a new twist, a black third reich eagle as background, just so the wolf’s hook intent isn’t to be confused with anything other than a nazi rune.
the man is a pompous idiot, once good for laughs but no more. is this the world’s fate? nuclear war in the hands of idiots such as these?
in short: if scarce shells were western shills, ukraine’d be overflowing.
and when the last ukrainian is dead, they plan to start using georgians and finns. and the most stupid finnish leaders are enthusiastically waiting for it.
well the leaders are never sent to the frontlines so they can be enthusiastic as long as they know when to leave the country if things dont go as planned.
anything white and stupid, will feed the bolshevik-nazi meat grinder, on behalf of the city of london, washington dc and the vatican.
difference between conspiracy and fact? 6 months.
you’ve heared it at million times…the surveillance mess, nato is running over the black sea …put it to bed…yesterday!
in my amerikunt lgbt colony we worship dollar; this is my nazzi morality
time to expand the russian airspace to push us and nato aircraft and drones as targets.
recall that in 1945 imperial japan’s leaders showed complete disinterest in the devastation of successive cities. zelensky cares more? what forced surrender was not air attacks nor the a-bomb but the physical occupation by the ussr of manchuria from which an attack could be rapidly be launched on a largely undefended part of japan.
these atacms missiles fired by american military personnel were a direct attack on russia and its nuclear early warning systems. making this an american only direct attack against russia. let the fun begin. you lot allowed your psychopaths of the zionist fraternity and opened pandora’s box, on your heads be it!
aye, giving your enemies enough rope to hang themselves, a russian trait!
ukraine forces or nato vets have now been trained on the f-16. remember when the pilots were striking, owing to the problem with the oxygen supply? is it a coincidence that boris, who took azov to westminster, following their vacation in turkey, post capture, just days ago, is now begging to use nato missiles on russian territory?
2/2 can’t the f-16 dispense nukes, which possibly might be located in poland? the same boris who told zelinsky to cancel the peace negotiations. what do nat rothschild, boris johson, michael gove. radislaw sikorsky, david cameron and george osborne all have in common? bullingdon club boys. who else is part of the club?
pootin is 💯 to be blamed for this increase in attacks. he fears his god, chickenshit satanyahoo!!! he is forbidden to kill and zio nazi terrorist jewscum so he refuses to start flattening kiev, the western embassies there. so what is expected?