Aircraft Air Base in Crimea: The Armed Forces could use modified Neptune missiles - ISW

Many people now assume that Ukrainians could reach the Peninsula by American Systems of Great Distance atacMS. However, analysts of the Institute of War Study point out that they are not yet armed with the Ukrainian army. On August 8 and 9, explosions at Russian military bases and ammunition warehouses were recorded in the south of Ukraine, reports the American Institute for War Study (ISW).

Advisor to the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Serhiy Khlan noted that for more than a half hours in Novooleksiyivka, located about 35 km north of the border with Crimea, the detonation of shells continued. Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov also reported 10 explosions on Russian military bases in the western part of Melitopol. Russian and Ukrainian sources have reported a series of explosions at the Russian air base in the occupied Novofeedorovka on the west coast of Crimea.

Ukrainian officials did not take responsibility for the strikes of Russian military infrastructure. ISW notes that the Ministry of Defense of Russia was the cause of the incident in the Crimea in the Crimea, an explosion of several aviation ammunition in warehouses due to violations of fire safety rules. In doing so, they rejected the reports that Ukrainian blows or diversions at the military facility were the cause of the explosions.

The Institute's analysts believe that the Kremlin does not want to blame Ukraine of the stroke, as it would show the inefficiency of Russian air defense systems. The same reaction was when the Ukrainian forces were drowning the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet of the cruiser "Moscow". Novofedorivka is located over 200 km to the front line in the Kherson region. Therefore, Russian bloggers suggested that Ukrainians used the USA army tactical missile systems (ATACMS).

However, according to the Institute, the Armed Forces does not have ATACMS systems. "ISW has no reason to independently evaluate the exact cause of the explosions," the institute's report said. - The simultaneity of explosions at two different objects is probably prevents the official Russian version of a random fire, but does not deny a diversion or a long -range missile strike .

Ukraine could modify its Neptune missiles for the task of land for terrestrial purposes, as the Russians with anti -ship and anti -aircraft missiles did, but there is no evidence to support this hypothesis. " We will remind that the explosions in the Crimea on the aviation base of the invaders in Novofedorovka were heard at about 15:30 on August 9. A military airfield that Russians use for planes attacking Ukraine -controlled territories.

The New York Times, referring to its sources at the Ukrainian Defense Ministry, reported that a blow to the Russian air bases could be taken from the Grimm OTRK, developed at the Dnieper KB "Southern". Journalists emphasize that the explosions in the Crimea are Ukrainian military, who used weapons "exclusively Ukrainian development". As it was reported, on April 13, the Ukrainian military struck the cruiser "Moscow" with the latest missiles "Neptune".