/1. Tonight there was a large attack by Ukrainian drones on three Russian military airfields: Borisoglebsk and Baltimore in the Voronezh region, as well as Savasleika Nizhny Novgorod region.
Baltimore and Borisoglebsk are located 180km and 340km from the front line. Savasleika, which is a Russian MiG-31 base, is located 650 km from the front line.
/2. A compilation of sounds of drones flying overhead, explosions and Russian air defense activity during the attack on Baltimore military airfield, near Voronezh
/3. A compilation of recordings made by locals drones during the attack on Borisoglebsk military airfield, Voronezh region
/4. Footages of tonights drone attack on Savasleika military airfield. Savasleika is located further compared to other airfields which were attacked tonight, so drones arrived at the location already in the morning. t.me/astrapress/619…
/5. Russian source associated with Russian military aviation regarding the tonight’s drone attack on three Russian military airfields:
“At night, the hohols attacked three of our airfields. Effectively on some of them. Unfortunately, but naturally.
The problem is the same. The further the airfield is from the frontline, the more peaceful life there is. Well, and if covering a military airfield with one or two Pantsir air defense systems, you can only hope for a chance. Actually, many people hope for it.”
/5. Moment of the arrival of Ukrainian kamikaze drone on Russian Savasleika military airfield. t.me/DniproOfficial…
/7. First satellite imagery of the damage to the infrastructure of the Russian Borisoglebsk military airfield after tonight’s drone attack.
/2. At least 3 or 4 trucks full of dead Russian soldiers.
/3. Russian equipment losses in destroyed column in Rylsk:
-6 x Not completely burned trucks;
-8 x Completely burned trucks;
-1 x Bukhanka;
-Total 15.
P.S: I am sure that it’s the result of a good HIMARS strike. We have seen such pictures before, for example the most similar case is a HIMARS strike on Russian column in Hladkivka, Kherson region. 👇
✈️/.1 At night there was a massive drone attack on Russian military airfield in Lipetsk. 285km from the front line. Published footages show the secondary detonations. Aviation ammunition storages were targeted.
/2. FIRMS show fire tracer in the location of ammunition storage on the territory of Lipetsk military airfield.
(52.6603338, 39.4501146)
/3. Russian military aircraft leave Lipetsk airbase during night drone attack
/1. Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in Russia was attacked by kamikaze drones tonight. The capacity of Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery is 5mln tons per year.
As a result of a drone attack, a fire broke out, which, according to Russian media, reached the height of a 15-story building. A fire train was brought in to help extinguish the fire.
170km from the front line, Rostov region of Russia.
/2. An installed anti drone mesh is visible on the oil refinery.
/3. Russians publish photos from the Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery, which was attacked by drones. According to Russian media, after the strikes of the UAVs, two AVT installations caught fire.
Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery - is/was the only operating refinery in the Rostov region. There were two AVT units, each with a capacity of 2.5 million tons of oil per year, for a total of 5 million tons per year. If both were damaged it might mean that the unite oil refinery is disabled.
During the night a missile attack on Kerch area, in Crimea was reported. Approximately 240km from the frontline.
As claimed by some Ukrainian sources the target was near the bridge but not the bridge itself.
At the same time, Russian appointed adviser to the head of Crimea writes the following about the night attack:
“While repelling an enemy attack on the transport infrastructure of the city of Kerch, two ferries - a car ferry and a railway ferry- were damaged from the debris of downed missiles - the glazing of the superstructures was damaged. There were no casualties among sailors or civilians. Once the damage is assessed, ferry service will resume.”
/2. As claimed by some sources regarding tonight’s missile attack on Kerch, Crimea:
“Tonight, May 30, at the Kerch ferry crossing, fragments of a downed missile damaged the pilot boat "Dream", ASTRA sources in the emergency services of the annexed region report. The boat sank. The crew members managed to leave the ship and were not injured.”
/3. Some more claims regarding night missile attack on Kerch area:
“In addition to the pilot boat "Mechta", which, as ASTRA already reported, sank, the ferry "Conroe Trader" and the ferry "Avangard" were damaged in Crimea during today's attack. The latter ran aground due to damage”
/1. In the morning Ukrainian sources reported that Russian Project 266M Kovrovets was destroyed/damaged. Soon some Russian sources began to leak information that there was indeed a damaged/destroyed Russian ship during tonight’s strikes on Sevastopol, but it was not Kovrovets, but “something worth”, without going to much into details.
Now there are such claims regarding the ship that was targeted:
“Project 22800 Karakurt “Cyclone” was hit. Information from the source. Requires additional confirmation.
It is reported that tonight, May 19, 2024, a missile attack was carried out on a small missile ship of Project 22800 “Cyclone” in the port of Sevastopol.
The strike was carried out by two ATACMS ballistic missiles.
As a result of the strike, 6 servicemen of the Russian Black Sea Fleet were killed and 11 more were injured.
/2. First satellite imagery of the location of the reported strike on Russian Project 266M Kovrovets and Project 22800 Cyclone in the Sevastopol harbour.
There is a damage to the building visible as a result of the strike. However Cyclone and Kovrovets are nowhere to be seen. They have not yet been found in the entire Sevastopol Bay area. t.me/kiber_boroshno…
/3. It’s supposed by the source, that the rescue boat of project 23370 is located at the place where the Cyclone/Kovrovets were supposed to be. These are intended for search, rescue and underwater technical work in ports and in the coastal sea zone.
/1. At night and in the early morning there was a massive drone attack on several regions of Russia. The main targets were in Novorossiysk (330km from the fronline) and Tuapse (430km from the frontline).
Novorossiysk was the first to be attacked, at approximately 3:15 local time and continued for ~2,5 hours. Locals claim about 33-35 explosions total.
Approximately 15 minutes after that reports started to appear about drone attack on Tuapse. The oil refinery was under attack.
/2. A number of objects were targeted in the Novorossiysk area. Preliminary it’s known about the strikes on:
- Grushovaya Balka oil depot
- Gazprom oil depot in Kirillovka
- Mazutnyy Terminal of the port of Novorossiysk
/3. Videos of the drone attack on the Novorossiysk