Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
[ColonelCassad] 1. At least one missile hit the Black Sea Fleet headquarters. One soldier was killed, six more were injured. The fragments of one of the downed missiles fell on Nakhimov Avenue.
The fleet command staff was unlikely to be there during the attack.
2. The Russian Ministry of Defense announced the downing of five cruise missiles. Aksenov confirmed the information about the downed missiles, one was destroyed near Bakhchisarai. The missiles were launched from the airfield in Kulbakino. In addition to missiles, decoys and drones were launched. In the morning, in addition to missiles, four drones were shot down in the Crimea and Sevastopol region.
3. The civilian infrastructure around the fleet headquarters was not damaged. The building itself received significant damage, now they are putting out a fire there, repairs there will not be cheap, a couple of floors have collapsed at the place of arrival.
4. During an attack in the bay, aerosol smoke was traditionally used on ships as a precaution. Traffic on the Crimean Bridge was also suspended. This is already standard practice.
5. Local authorities urge citizens not to film air defense operations and the consequences of arrivals. Everyone fell for it, both citizens and the media. Until prisons begin with lives being broken for 5-10 years for filming, then all the exhortations and threats of the authorities are basically a fart in the puddle. After 1.5 years of war, the authorities were still unable to provide an information dome over this or that event. The enemy has moved much further on this issue.
6. Regarding what flew into the fleet headquarters - either Storm Shadow or SCAPL-EG.
The strikes, of course, were provided with target designation from NATO and full reconnaissance and technical support from NATO, like all previous ones. For anyone who has forgotten, we are in a proxy war with NATO.
And everything that is below the threshold of using nuclear weapons can and will be used against us.
Empty threats without clear, proportionate responses did not scare anyone in 2022, and they certainly do not scare anyone now. So all that remains to be desired is less chatter about answers and red lines, more practical and painful actions for the enemy.
In the next 2 days, we can expect massive attacks on Ukraine.
More from the dzen.ru page of Russian military correspondent Aleksandr Kots
On the missile attack on Sevastopol
The enemy hit the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet. Why? There can be many theses here. Starting with the fact that Kyiv, in the absence of successes at the front, needs to demonstrate some kind of victory. And ending with the fact that the enemy was egged on by the omnipresent West.
But there is only one main reason - because it can. They have no brakes, no red lines, no moral anguish over random victims. There are missiles and there are targets that are being scouted, including as a result of combined strikes.
During these raids, NATO intelligence records the reaction algorithm of the Russian side, the points of our air defense systems and coastal defenses, identifying targets for future attacks. We did the same, the enemy learns from our experience.
More from regnum.ru
Former Black Sea Fleet admiral called for a strike on Zelensky's office in response to the attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters
After a missile attack by the Ukrainian army on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) in Sevastopol, the time has come to strike the building of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, and the office of Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky, located in Kiev on Bankovaya Street,ex-commander of the Black Sea Fleet Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov told RIA Novosti .
“It’s time to hit the so-called decision-making centers in Kyiv, the Ministry of Defense, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Finally, along Bankovaya ,” he said.
Komoyedov added that in order to repel the increasing attacks on Crimea, it is necessary to increase the number of air defense systems (air defense). He called for the protection of the main control and communications centers to divide the territory of the peninsula into sectors and reserve air defense forces for them.
As Regnum reported , the Ukrainian Armed Forces carried out a missile attack on the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol on September 22, causing damage to the building. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that after the strike one of the servicemen went missing.
The governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev , noted that the blast wave from the impact on the headquarters knocked out the windows in ten residential buildings . No civilians were injured.
The head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov , said that air defense systems shot down cruise missiles over the peninsula. He called for calm.