Ukraine’s forces strike long-range space communications center and Russian air defense assets – General Staff

As reported by Ukrinform, this was announced by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on Facebook.

“As part of systematic measures to reduce the combat potential of the Russian aggressor, units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces on the night of March 2 struck a long-range space communications center near the settlement of Vityno and a Podlyot-K1 radar station near Vynohradne in temporarily occupied Ukrainian Crimea,” the statement said.

In addition, over the past day in the temporarily occupied part of the Luhansk region, Ukrainian forces hit a Kasta 2E2 radar station near the settlement of Liubyme and a Yastreb A-V radar station near Topoli.

Ukrainian units also struck clusters of personnel from the Rubikon radio-electronic reconnaissance unit in the areas of temporarily occupied Kermenchyk in the Donetsk region and Kinski Rozdory in the Zaporizhzhia region.

As previously reported by Ukrinform, on the night of March 2, drones of the SSU’s Alpha Special Operations Center together with other components of the Defense Forces struck targets in the port of Novorossiysk, including military vessels, a 30N6E2 fire-control radar of the S-300PMU-2 Favorit system, a Pantsir-S2 air defense missile-gun system, and six of seven oil-loading piers at the Sheskharis oil terminal.

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