SpaceWar.com reports: “Ukraine said it had struck part of Russia’s air defence system in annexed Crimea overnight, as Moscow said it repelled a major attempted missile strike on the peninsula on Monday.

Kyiv has increased attacks on the Black Sea peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014, since it launched a counteroffensive against Russian forces earlier this year.

‘The Armed Forces successfully hit a strategic object of the air defence system on the western coast of occupied Crimea,’ the Ukrainian army’s strategic communications unit said on social media.

It gave no further details and Russia gave no official comment…”