Russian attack | Russian sources: Chernihiv missile strike is revenge for Ukraine's attack on Crimea – at least 14 dead

Russian Wednesday morning's missile strikes on Ukraine were, according to Russian sources, revenge for Ukraine's nighttime attack on the Russian base on the Crimean peninsula.

According to information from the afternoon, the attack in Chernihiv had claimed at least 14 lives, he said The Kyiv Independent Referring to the information of the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine.

In addition, according to social media data, Russia also attacked the Odessa region and Kryvyi Rih on Wednesday morning.

Ukraine hit the Dzhankoi Air Base in Crimea with missiles at three in the morning and apparently caused significant damage.

By Wednesday afternoon, official information about the night attack in Ukraine did not come either from Ukraine or from Russia. According to several sources, the highway leading past Džankoi to southern Crimea was inexplicably closed on Wednesday.

Crimean Telegram channel Krymski veter said early Wednesday morning that several missiles had hit the Džankoi base, which housed at least Russian attack helicopters. According to the channel, the field is guarded by Russian S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft systems.

The channel published three morning and night satellite images published by the US space agency NASA, which marked three fires apparently started by a Ukrainian missile strike. The images were allegedly taken by a satellite named Suomi NPP, which is named after a Finnish-American scientist who died in 1995 Verner E. from Finland.

At least 14 people died in the Chernihiv attack. Picture: Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters

Please Telegram channels known for their information sources in the Russian Ministry of Defense and the armed forces Baza and Rybar were the first to tell about Džankoi's attack. According to Baza, seven or eight ballistic missiles entered the field despite the fire of Russian air defense.

According to Rybar, first seven and then five missiles hit the field, which, according to him, were Atacms missiles fired by Ukrainian Himars launchers.

After a long delay, the United States delivered these missiles to Ukraine in September. President Volodymyr Zelenskyi told about their first use in October, when the missiles were fired the BBC including Luhansk and Berdyansk in the territory of Ukraine occupied by Russia.

According to information from October, Ukraine would have used MGM-140 models of missiles, the range of which would have reached exactly from the Ukrainian-controlled Kherson region to the Dzhankoi base. Another possibility is that Ukraine would have been able to use versions of the missile with a range of 300 kilometers.

Crimean news website Lenta novostei Kryma cited you on Wednesday, three local war bloggers, all of whom said the Wednesday morning attacks by Russia were revenge for Dzhankoi's attack.

According to the website, the Russian security service FSB began hunting citizens in Crimea on Wednesday who had published pictures and videos from Dzhankoi field on social media either during or before the attack.