While not formally confirming responsibility for mystery strike, Kyiv officials react with glee on social media
Ukraine has hinted it was behind a series of mysterious and devastating strikes in occupied Crimea that destroyed a key railway junction used for supplying Russian troops and a military airbase.
Several explosions on Tuesday appeared to have destroyed a Russian ammunition depot and an electricity substation about 125 miles from the frontline with Ukrainian forces. Smoke rising into the sky near Dzhankoi in Crimea after a suspected Ukrainian attack on a Russian ammunition dump.It was unclear how Ukraine managed to reach the two military targets, and Kyiv has not formally confirmed responsibility. The US-supplied Himars system previously used by Ukrainian soldiers to destroy bridges across the Dnieper River has a range of about 50 miles.
. Instead, Kyiv has hit Crimea three times in a week, in clinical and flamboyant style. Russia’s logistics and weapons dumps have been badly affected.