Ukraine charts success in recent strikes against Russian forces in Crimea

As was expected, the series of Ukrainian special operations against Russian high-value targets based in Russia-occupied Crimea that began in August continued in September. Early in the morning of September 13, the port city of Sevastopol – home of the Russian Navy’s Black Sea Fleet (BSF) – was attacked by several Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG air-launched cruise missiles (ALCMs), launched from Ukrainian Air Force (UkrAF)-operated Su-24M Fencer-D tactical bombers. According to the official Russian Ministry of Defence (MOD) report, a total of