Defence forces strike Russian drone launch site and repeaters in occupied territories – Ukraine's General Staff
Ukrainian forces struck a number of Russian military facilities, particularly a site for storing, preparing and launching attack drones in Donetsk, as well as repeaters in Kherson Oblast and occupied Crimea on 12 September and on the night of 12-13 September.
Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Telegram
Details: In the areas of Zaliznyi Port and Skadovsk in Kherson Oblast, as well as Chornomorske and Olenivka in occupied Crimea, ground-based repeaters used to control Geran/Gerbera attack UAVs were struck.
A Russian antenna station was also struck in Olenivka.
In addition, a target-tracking radar station was struck near Ryovny in Russia's Bryansk Oblast.
Background:
- On the night of 12-13 September, Ukrainian forces struck the Slavyansky oil refinery in Russia's Krasnodar Krai and the TANECO refinery in Tatarstan. The General Staff also confirmed that the Saratov oil refinery was damaged in a strike on 11 September.
- Earlier, Defence Intelligence of Ukraine reported that the strike on the Slavyansk-ECO oil refinery hit the facility's key oil-processing unit and tank farm.
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