Ukraine's Security Service reports strikes on nine locations in Moscow Oblast and Crimea – video

Roman Petrenko — 17 May, 14:16
Ukraine's Security Service reports strikes on nine locations in Moscow Oblast and Crimea – video
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The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU), together with Ukraine's defence forces, struck a military facility and several oil infrastructure facilities in Moscow Oblast, as well as the Belbek military airfield in occupied Crimea on the night of 16-17 May.

Source: SSU in a comment to Ukrainska Pravda

Details: In particular, the Alpha Special Operations Centre and Ukraine's defence forces carried out strikes on several locations in Moscow Oblast.

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The following targets were hit in Moscow Oblast:

  • the Moscow oil refinery
  • the Solnechnogorskaya oil pumping station
  • the Volodarskaya oil pumping station
  • the Angstrem plant, which supplies semiconductors for Russia's military-industrial complex and is under US sanctions.

In addition, according to the SSU, infrastructure and air defence assets at the Belbek military airfield in temporarily occupied Crimea were struck, particularly the following:

  • a Pantsir-S2 anti-aircraft missile system
  • a storage facility containing radar equipment for an S-400 system
  • an Orion UAV control system and a ground control station for Forpost UAVs
  • a ground-to-air data transmission point
  • the air traffic control tower and a hangar at Belbek airfield.

Background: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked the SSU and the defence forces for their precision strikes on Moscow Oblast.

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