Ukrainian forces blew up a Russian command center in occupied Crimea, according to reports Saturday.
The Ukrainian Air Force said it hit and destroyed the Saki airfield in western Crimea, a region illegally occupied by Russia in 2014.
“The Air Force of Ukraine is carrying out methodical work aimed at destroying the system of colonial control in Crimea,” said an adviser to the Ukrainian government Anton Gerashchenko on air on X Saturday.
“Over the past few days, the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has carried out several successful attacks on enemy targets in occupied Crimea.”
The air base is home to the 43rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which supports Russian forces in the region and is armed with Sukhoi Su-24 bombers.
Russian troops fired rockets during an Air Force mission over Ukraine. AP
The last time Ukraine hit Saki airport, which Gerashchenko said “hosts the Nitka training complex for flight crew training,” was in 2022, destroying several Russian planes.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said its defense intercepted 36 drones over Crimea on Friday and one over Krasnodar in southern Russia.
Meanwhile, a Russian missile attack killed at least 11 people in Pokrovsk, a town in eastern Donetsk region, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled region said.
Russian troops fired from helicopters at Ukrainian targets. Russia’s Defense Ministry said its defense intercepted 36 Ukrainian drones over Crimea on Friday. AP
“Eleven dead, including five children – this is the current result of the strike in Pokrovsk district,” Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram.
“The main blows were delivered to Pokrovsk and Rivne in the community of Myrnograd.”
Separately, Ukraine’s Kharkiv regional prosecutor’s office shared new evidence on Saturday that Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles supplied by North Korea.
Firefighters in Belgorod put out a fire after the city was hit in an intensive campaign of Ukrainian airstrikes. AP
The office showed fragments of the missile, supporting claims made on Friday by senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia was using weapons supplied by the Hermit Government.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said earlier this week that the US believes the Kremlin has used North Korean missiles at least twice in recent weeks.
In Russia, the city of Belgorod, which has been heavily attacked over the past few weeks, canceled midnight mass for Russian Orthodox Christmas, which began Saturday night.
With Postal wire
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