Resistance movement confirms strike on radar station and air defence command post in Crimea

Saturday, 6 January 2024, 03:18

The Defence Forces of Ukraine hit a radar station and a command post with a secure communication channel with the Kremlin, which was responsible for coordinating air defence across the peninsula, in Yevpatoriia on 4 January. 

Source: Ukraine’s National Resistance Center 

Details: Atesh, the Crimean underground resistance movement, conducted additional reconnaissance of Ukraine's Defence Forces strike on a military unit near Yevpatoriia, which was hit by a missile on 4 January, and passed the information to the Defence Forces. 

Local agents said that in addition to the station itself, a command post responsible for maintaining a secure communication channel with the Kremlin, including the coordination of air defence across the peninsula, was hit. 

Background

Lieutenant General Mykola Oleshchuk, Commander of the Air Force, said that explosions in the temporarily occupied cities of Sevastopol and Yevpatoriia on 4 January were a special operation involving Ukraine's Air Force.

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