Satellite images show the destruction of one S-400 missile system after the August 2 strike on Crimea.
The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) writes about this.
A Crimea-focused Telegram channel claims that Ukrainian strikes on August 2 against the Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine Rostov-on-Don in the port of Sevastopol did not sink it. Commercially available Planet Labs PBC satellite imagery from August 2 suggests that Ukrainian forces damaged the submarine, but ISW has not yet been able to independently verify the report that the Ukrainian strike destroyed the submarine or the extent of the damage, the analysts said.
At the same time, ISW quotes Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmitry Pletenchuk as saying that Russian forces are essentially no longer using two of the five Russian military airfields in Crimea following recent Ukrainian strikes on the peninsula.
Moscow did not report any losses of its military equipment.
On the night of August 2, the occupation authorities of Sevastopol reported the operation of air defense and the fall of missile fragments on several streets of the city. However, at night, a powerful explosion was heard, not similar to the destruction of a UAV, but characteristic of a ground explosion. The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine later announced the successful defeat and sinking of the Russian Black Sea Fleet submarine Rostov-on-Don, as well as a strike on the Russian S-400 air defense system in Crimea, which resulted in damage to four launchers of the Triumf air defense system.
Source: Racurs
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