Images showed the aftermath of the missile attack on the Belbek air base in the occupied peninsula overnight Tuesday.
A Russian air base in Crimea that caught fire following a suspected Ukrainian missile attack hosted dozens of military aircraft central to Moscow's invasion.Ukraine has stepped up strikes on Russian facilities on the peninsula Moscow has occupied since 2014 and which Kyiv has vowed to recapture. Regarding the latest incident, Mikhail Razvozhayev, the Moscow-installed governor of Sevastopol, said there had been a massive Ukrainian missile attack over the port city overnight Tuesday.
'The exact number of missiles involved is unclear, but Russian military blogger Ribar said the attack involved 16 ATACMS missiles, which last month the U.S. said it had given Kyiv.'Unfortunately, one or two missiles could not be shot down and the consequences of this have been revealed to the whole world, thanks to the publication of a video from a CCTV camera,' the post said. 'How and why this is still possible in the third year of the war has long been a rhetorical question.
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