Ukrainian intelligence officials say President Zelenskyy's military has destroyed Russia's 'Triuf' air defence system in what is reportedly the second strike on occupied Crimea in recent days.
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00:00 Ukraine claims to have destroyed a Russian air defense system near the town of Yevpatoria
00:09 in annexed Crimea in an overnight drone and missile attack.
00:12 A Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters the attack destroyed a Triumf air defense
00:17 system in a joint operation of the security service of Ukraine and Navy.
00:23 Similar claim has been made by the Ukrainian media "Ukrainska Pravda" citing a source of
00:26 the security service of Ukraine.
00:28 According to these reports, first drones blinded the air defense system by attacking its radar
00:34 and antenna and then two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles were fired at the system launches.
00:41 According to this 2018 map by the Atlantic Council, a Triumf air defense system was indeed
00:48 near Yevpatoria.
00:50 This is the second consecutive strike reported against occupied Crimea in two days.
00:55 On Wednesday, an attack against a Sevastopol shipyard hit two Russian military vessels,
01:00 a landing craft and a submarine and damaged the port's infrastructure.
01:05 The Institute for the Study of War says damage to one of the Russian Black Sea Fleet's main
01:10 repair facilities in occupied Crimea will likely have a reverberating impact in the
01:14 event of further Ukrainian strikes on Russian naval assets.
01:19 Since mid-July, drones and missiles have regularly targeted Russian military depots and infrastructure
01:25 in occupied Crimea.
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