Kyiv’s forces are reported to have struck Russia’s Center for Long-Range Space Communications in the village of Vitino in Crimea.
Ukraine has struck a Russian deep space network hub in annexed Crimea—allegedly used by Russian Aerospace Forces—using U.S.-supplied missiles, according to local reports.
Kyiv’s forces launched the ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) attack across Crimea on Sunday night, and „successfully struck“ Russia’s Center for Long-Range Space Communications in the village of Vitino in the Saky region, open-source intelligence X (formerly Twitter) account OSINTtechnical said.
„Multiple areas of the facility are burning“, the account said.
The center is one of three complexes that make up Russia’s Yevpatoria Center for Deep Space Communications, which supports manned and robotic space missions. The facility was reportedly previously struck in December 2023 with British-supplied Storm Shadow air-launched cruise missiles.
Attacks on Crimea have ramped up throughout Russian President Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, which began in February 2022, as Kyiv looks to reclaim the Black Sea peninsula.
