Ukraine struck Russian air defence systems near the town of Yevpatoriya in the west of occupied Crimea in a long-range overnight attack on Thursday, the Ukrainian military said.
Russia’s defence ministry said in a statement that its air defences had shot down 11 drones overnight over the peninsula, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. It made no mention of any damage.
A video circulated on social media showed powerful explosions and a plume of smoke rising in the night sky illuminated by a blaze. Reuters could not immediately verify the video.
A Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters the attack destroyed a “Triumf” air defence system in a joint operation of the Security Service of Ukraine and navy.
72 hours is the usually quoted figure. To be fair, this was also the western estimate for how long until Kyiv fell before we knew quite how big Zelensky’s balls were and quite how shit the Russian military was.
Credit to the UAF too, they did a tremendous job with very limited resources in the early days.
And credit the mud!!!
Don’t forget the tractors
And fifteen billion mile long unsupported columns of armored vehicles which ran out of gas
Using Zelenskys massive balls of steel as a tank barrier was kind of ingenious