Ukrainian navy and special operations forces destroyed three Russian Pantsir air defense systems in Crimea and Kherson region using FPV drones launched from robot boats, marking the second known instance of sea drones launching aerial attacks.
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Ukrainian navy and special operations forces destroyed three Russian Pantsir air defense systems in Crimea and Kherson region using FPV drones launched from robot boats, marking the second known instance of sea drones launching aerial attacks.
Ukrainian forces destroyed two Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense systems and stated that Ukrainian forces also destroyed or damaged an Osa air defense system in occupied Kherson Oblast
Ukrainian first-person-view (FPV) drones using a naval drone as a springboard took out three Russian air defense systems
Two Russian anti-missile Pantsir-S1 systems and one OSA anti-aircraft vehicle were reportedly damaged or destroyed
Ukrainian Naval Forces destroyed two Pantsir-S1 complexes in Kherson region
В частности, два ЗРК "Панцирь" были уничтожены на Херсонщине. Также был поражен вражеский ЗРК "Оса".
Russian invaders attacked public transport in the Shumenskyi district of Kherson from a drone.
Preliminarily, one person was killed and nine others were injured in the attack.
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Extracted: 2026-07-18T16:57:30.532Z
Source story: day-1052-2025-01-12