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Published January 6, 2024, 3:46 PM ET
Reports on Saturday said Ukrainian forces blew up a Russian command center in occupied Crimea.
The Ukrainian air force said it hit and destroyed Saki airfield in western Crimea, the region illegally occupied by Russia in 2014.
“The Ukrainian Air Force is carrying out methodical work aimed at destroying the occupiers' control system in Crimea,” the Ukrainian government adviser said Anton Gerashchenko in a post on X-Saturday.
“In recent days, the Air Force of the Ukrainian Armed Forces has carried out a number of successful attacks on enemy targets in the still-occupied Crimea.”
The air base is home to the 43rd Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Russian Aerospace Forces, which supports Russian troops in the region and is armed with Sukhoi Su-24 bombers.
Russian forces fire missiles during an air force operation over Ukraine. AP
Ukraine last struck Saki airfield, which Gerashchenko said “hosts the Nitka training complex for training aircrews on deck aircraft,” in 2022, destroying several Russian aircraft.
The Russian Defense Ministry said its defense intercepted 36 drones over Crimea and one over Krasnodar in southern Russia on Friday.
Meanwhile, a Russian missile attack killed at least 11 people in Pokrovsk, a city in the eastern Donetsk region, the governor of the Ukrainian-controlled part of the region said.
Russian soldiers fire at Ukrainian targets from a helicopter. The Russian Defense Ministry said its defense intercepted 36 Ukrainian drones over Crimea on Friday. AP
“Eleven dead, including five children – these are the consequences of the attacks on the Pokrovsk district for now,” Vadym Filashkin said in a post on Telegram.
“The biggest blow was inflicted on Pokrovsk and Rivne in the municipality of Myrnograd.”
Separately, the Kharkiv region prosecutor's office on Saturday submitted new evidence that Russia attacked Ukraine with missiles supplied by North Korea.
Firefighters in Belgorod extinguish fires after the city was hit by an intense campaign of Ukrainian airstrikes. AP
The office showed fragments of the missiles, supporting claims Friday by a senior adviser to President Volodymyr Zelensky that Russia had used weapons supplied by the hermit kingdom.
National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said earlier this week that the US believes the Kremlin has used North Korean missiles at least twice in recent weeks.
In Russia, the city of Belgorod, which has come under heavy fire in recent weeks, has canceled midnight masses for the Russian Orthodox Christmas, which begins Saturday evening.
With post wires
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