On the night of June 24, the Space Communications Center of the Russian occupiers was hit in temporarily occupied Crimea.
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It provides communication support with modern Lotos-S spy satellites and GLONASS navigation satellites – an analogue of American GPS.
Forbes wrote about this.
According to the publication, this is why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are trying to attack this facility, which for Russia is an “invaluable space base.” Ukraine has already hit it with missiles twice since December.
This facility in Yevpatoria was built as part of the Soviet space program to communicate with lunar and Martian probes in the 1960s and 70s.
Planet Labs photos from June 24, which Schemes have at their disposal, show traces of fires at a Russian military facility in the village of Vitino. According to OpenStreetMap, the 40th separate command and measurement complex (Long Space Communications Center), part of the Russian Aerospace Forces, is located there. This is an important military part of the Russian space communications and satellite navigation system.
On the night of June 24, a series of loud explosions were heard, as residents of Evpatoria and the settlements of Molochnoe and Vitino, as well as Crimean telegram channels, wrote about on social networks. These events were not officially commented on either in Ukraine or in Russia.
Source: Racurs
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