About the missile strike on Cape Tarkhankut
On the morning of August 23, the AFU once again attacked the Crimean peninsula. Cape Tarkhankut, where several military facilities are located and which the AFU had been actively monitoring for several weeks, including with the help of NATO satellites, came under attack.
️Только this time the AFU changed tactics: first, two drones, probably Mugin-5, which took off from Krivoy Rog, approached at a distance of 30-40 km to the peninsula and drew air defense fire.
The drones were shot down, but almost immediately after the anti-aircraft missiles were launched, three Ukrainian missiles were fired from the sea side.
Just yesterday a group of boats with Ukrainian Defence Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine scouts were operating 40 km from Tarkhankut, probably conducting visual surveillance of objects near Crimea.
Yes, our pilots destroyed one of the boats, as well as two more near Snake Island, but the others, operating 5-10 km away, left. Their activity there was unique, but today's attack shows it was not random.
The strike itself was presumably carried out by anti-ship missiles. These could be both Harpoons and Neptunes. And here we should add that for two weeks Ukrainian sailors have been actively transporting unidentified weapons to Zmeiny Island and an empty gas production facility to the east of it.
And the threat from the boats cannot be written off. At the very least, they carry man-portable surface-to-air missile and anti-tank systems, including RBS-17s armed with Hellfires.