Patrol boats, ferries, air base hangars: SBU reports 'large-scale special operation' targeting sites in occupied Crimea and Russia
Ukrainian forces carried out a series of strikes on Russian targets in occupied Crimea and on Russian territory overnight into July 13, hitting vessels of various types and equipment hangars at an air base, the SBU Security Service press service reported.
The targets struck included military, logistics, and fuel facilities. The operation was carried out as part of a task set by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to reduce Russia's military-economic potential.
According to the SBU, the operation struck:
- Two Project 12150 Mangust patrol boats in the Black Sea;
- Hangars containing military equipment and specialized gear at the Baherove air base in Crimea;
- Three stationary radar stations that Russian forces used to detect unmanned surface vessels and strike drones;
- The car ferries Eysk and Mariya at the Crimea ferry terminal in Kerch;
- The car ferries Lavrentiy and Panagia at the port of Kavkaz;
- Three storage tanks at a petroleum product transshipment facility at the port of Kavkaz;
- A rail freight train carrying tanker cars at the Kavkaz freight station;
- A storage tank farm at an oil depot in the town of Vyazniki in Russia's Stavropol Krai, located roughly 375 miles (600 kilometers) away.
The SBU noted that simultaneously striking dozens of targets across multiple distant locations in a single night demonstrates the growing scale of its long-range special operations.
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