The strike left 17 Russian personnel injured and damaged five military vehicles, according to Russian sources.
Ukrainian forces have said that they struck a Russian target in Crimea using ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile Systems), which reportedly could be the first time the U.S.-supplied weapon has been used on the peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014.
In September, the U.S. agreed to supply Ukraine with ATACMS, which Kyiv and some military experts had long been calling for. Their long-range allows Ukrainian forces to hit targets further away than rockets from the U.S.-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and M270 multiple-launch rocket systems.
Earlier in October, it was reported that Ukraine had used ATACMS for the first time to destroy Russian military helicopters deep inside occupied territory.
The Russian language Telegram channel Astra, which posts about the war in Ukraine, gave more details about Monday’s strike, saying that 17 Russian troops had been wounded and five vehicles damaged in the strike around 3 a.
