On Saturday morning, Ukrainian troops struck a Russian military facility on the coast of the Perekop Bay near the city of Armyansk in the annexed Crimea, the BBC reports.
According to the online publication "Astra", the attack on the Russian FSB border post was carried out with "Neptune" missiles. The Ukrainian publication "Militarniy" claims that these were "Flamingo" cruise missiles.
On August 31, the Ukrainian Telegram channel "Nikolayiv Vanek" published a video of the launch of missiles similar to "Flamingo" along the sea coast. The statement of "Voenen" says that these are the same "Flamingo" missiles that later hit the outpost near Armyansk.
There is no confirmation of this information from independent sources.
At the same time, it is difficult to assess the nature of the damage - there are no high-resolution satellite images in the public domain. The BBC Russian Service has satellite images from the PlanetLabs service, but their quality does not allow us to assess the results of the strike.
The building of the border post complex is probably damaged - a dark spot is visible in the photo, which may indicate an explosion.
It is also possible that the second explosion occurred near the location of the facility - this is also indicated by the dark spot in the area of the road.
The declared tactical characteristics of the "Flamingo" missile - a range of three thousand kilometers and a warhead weighing over a ton - would be easier to estimate if it had flown a greater distance. The transmission post is located several dozen kilometers from the coastal territory controlled by the Ukrainian armed forces.
However, video footage of the launches shows that these are cruise missiles, the outlines of which are indeed similar to the previously shown "Flamingo".