General Staff confirms strike on Russian Ka-27 helicopter, Iskander concentration area in Crimea
Ukrinform
Ukrainian forces on March 5 and overnight into March 6 struck a Ka-27 helicopter, an area where Iskander missile system launchers were concentrated, three air defense systems, and several other Russian military targets.
The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces reprted this in a post on Facebook, according to Ukrinform.
According to the report, Ukrainian forces struck an area where Iskander operational-tactical missile systems belonging to Russia's 12th Missile Brigade were concentrated near the temporarily occupied settlement of Kurortne, Crimea.
A Russian Ka-27 helicopter was destroyed in a strike on a technical observation post located on the Russian self-elevating drilling rig Syvash drilling rig in the Black Sea.
Other targets hit included:
- a Pantsir-S1 air defense missile and gun system near the temporarily occupied settlement of Yakymivka, Zaporizhzhia region;
- a Tor air defense system near the temporarily occupied city of Volnovakha in the Donetsk region;
- a launcher of the S-300 missile system near the temporarily occupied village of Strilkove, Kherson region;
- the Vostochny training ground in the temporarily occupied settlement of Novopetrivka, Zaporizhzhia region;
- a concentration of enemy personnel near Kolotilovka, Belgorod region in Russia;
- an ammunition storage depot near the temporarily occupied settlement of Novooleksiivka, Kherson region.
The extent of the damage and other results of the strikes are still being clarified.
Photo for illustration purposes: flickr by yasu_osugi
