The Ministry of Defense promised to restore the ships damaged during the attack on Sevastopol
The commander of the Ukrainian Air Force, Mykola Oleshchuk, hinted at the country's involvement in the missile strike on Sevastopol. He thanked the pilots for their "excellent combat work" and promised to continue. The Russian Defense Ministry announced that the ships damaged as a result of the attack will be restored. Military observer of the Newspaper.En" Mikhail Khodarenok explained what hit the city.
APU involvement in the attack
The commander of the Air Forces of Ukraine, Mykola Oleshchuk, announced Ukraine's involvement in the night strike on the Sevastopol Marine Plant. Ordzhonikidze. In a post from his Telegram channel, Oleshchuk expresses gratitude to the Ukrainian pilots "for excellent combat work" and notes that the Russians are "stormy" and they are "recovering from the night cotton in Sevastopol."
"To be continued...," the post says.
A message with a similar message appeared in the Telegram of the Strategic Communications Department of the Armed Forces of Ukraine:
"On the morning of September 13, the AFU launched successful strikes against naval assets and port infrastructure in the Ship Bay of Sevastopol."
Consequences of the attack
The Russian Defense Ministry reported that two warships damaged due to a nighttime missile strike will be fully restored. At the same time, it is not specified on the balance of which fleets the affected ships are listed.
"Two ships of the Navy, undergoing scheduled repairs at the S. Ordzhonikidze ship repair plant in the city of Sevastopol and damaged as a result of a missile strike by the Kiev regime on September 13 of this year, will be fully restored and will continue combat service as part of their fleets," the Ministry of Defense reported.
On the morning of September 13, the ministry informed that the AFU at night hit ten cruise missiles at the S. Ordzhonikidze ship repair plant in Sevastopol and three unmanned boats at a detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet at sea crossing. It was noted that the air defense system shot down seven out of ten missiles, and the patrol ship Vasily Bykov hit all marine drones. According to the Telegram channel Baza, a large landing ship and a diesel-electric submarine were damaged.
The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, wrote about the attack on the night of September 13. According to him, 24 people were injured, the consequences of the blow caused a fire at the enterprise.
Later, the official said that the fire was extinguished and thanked the emergency workers and medics for their assistance. He added that additional information about the victims and their condition will not be published for "obvious reasons."
His deputy Yevgeny Gorlov clarified that as a result of the attack, about 60 windows were knocked out and 300 square meters were damaged. meters of roof in eight residential buildings in Sevastopol.
Expert assessments
According to the military observer of the newspaper.Ru" by Mikhail Khodarenka, it is not possible to assess the quality of air defense work in the current conditions.
"For a detailed and objective analysis of the actions of the grouping of air defense forces and means deployed on the cover of Sevastopol, it is necessary to have, at least, a map of the radar wiring (or tracing paper taken from the tablets of the long-range air situation) of all air objects that night, firing cards of all anti-aircraft missile divisions (batteries), a record of all speech information, which was exchanged by officials of air defense units, units and formations that night.
According to him, it is not clear what kind of weapons Ukraine used, and reliable information will be obtained after studying the wreckage of the affected targets. According to Khodarenok, most likely, the APU used Anglo-French air-launched cruise missiles Storm Shadow / SCALP.
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The expert does not exclude the use of unmanned aerial vehicles, since the cover of the city from attacks complicates "almost mountainous terrain". Nevertheless, Khodarenok believes, "there is no doubt that all the necessary lessons from the night of September 12 will be learned by the military leadership, and the effectiveness of Sevastopol's air defense will only increase in the near future."
In a conversation with RIA Novosti, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov said that the strike was probably carried out using Storm Shadow. The same opinion is shared by military expert Alexey Leonkov. According to him, an attack of this nature and scale requires at least five Su-24 aircraft, "which Kiev has practically no left."
Mikhail Rodionov
