{"id":1394773,"date":"2026-06-24T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/?p=1394773"},"modified":"2026-06-24T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:59:31","slug":"military-airfields-and-russian-air-defense-systems-in-crimea-hit-by-the-ssu-details-of-the-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/military-airfields-and-russian-air-defense-systems-in-crimea-hit-by-the-ssu-details-of-the-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Airfields and Russian Air Defense Systems in Crimea Hit by the SSU \u2014 Details of the Operation"},"content":{"rendered":" <p>Operators of the <strong>Alpha Special Operations Center<\/strong> of the Security Service of Ukraine carried out successful strikes against Russian air defense assets and military airfields in temporarily occupied Crimea, the Ukrainian security service reported on June 24, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/\">UATV English.<\/a><\/p>\n   <p>According to preliminary information, the operation damaged four hangars used for storing aviation equipment at the military airfield Saky Air Base.<\/p>\n   <p>In addition, near Kerch, two weapons systems belonging to an S-400 surface-to-air missile complex were struck, along with two Pantsir-S1 missile-and-gun air defense systems. According to the SBU, this is the fourth air defense complex in the area that has been hit by Alpha operators.<\/p>\n    <blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cRussian occupiers are losing control of Crimea\u2019s skies. Every destroyed air defense system and every struck military airfield creates new opportunities for further Ukrainian strikes against the enemy\u2019s military infrastructure. The SSU will continue methodically turning Crimea into a territory of constant losses for the Russian army until it leaves the Ukrainian peninsula,\u201d the agency stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n   <p>As previously reported, Ukraine\u2019s Special Operations Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine used drones to attack and disable a railway bridge across the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne.<\/p>\n   <p><strong>Read also:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/uatv.ua\/en\/ukraine-destroyed-railway-bridge-across-the-north-crimean-canal\/\">Ukraine Destroyed Railway Bridge Across the North Crimean Canal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operators of the Alpha Special Operations Center of the Security Service of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1394775,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,53,55,50],"tags":[76,78,72945],"sources":[],"class_list":["post-1394773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-russia-en","category-ukraine-en","category-svit-en","tag-glavnoe-en","tag-homepage-en","tag-ukraine-strikes-back"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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