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Database of Russian Missile and UAV Attacks on Ukrainian Regions from the Occupied Crimea in January-May 2023

The Monitoring Group of the BlackSeaNews
and the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies
 

Based on the results of our own monitoring (see Table 1), the Monitoring Group of the Black Sea Institute for Strategic Studies and the BlackSeaNews editorial board presents the database Russian Missile and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Attacks on the Regions of Ukraine from the Occupied Crimea in January-May 2023.

Over the first 5 months of 2023, the Russian Armed Forces used the occupied Crimea to strike at the regions of Ukraine, including with:

93 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles – totaling 19 missiles monthly – from ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, whose main base is in the occupied Crimean Peninsula

37 – 7 monthly —Shahed-136/131 UAVs, 21 Iskander ballistic missiles and 3 P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles.

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Table 1. Database of Russian Missile and UAV Attacks on Ukrainian Regions
from the Occupied Crimea in January-May 2023

- ТОТ – temporarily occupied territories
- CMC – coastal missile complex
- OTMS – operational-tactical missile system
- the original data is taken from the official Air Force Command
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine website www.facebook.com/kpszsu
- the numbers below don’t take into account the confirmed launches
from the RF regions, even when the locales are listed

#

Date

Launch Area

Carrier type

Type and number of weapons used

Place of missile impact/destruction, direction/target

Details and notes

 

January 2023

1

14.01.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast

Target: energy infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed: One of the missiles that crossed the Moldova-Ukraine state border

2

26.01.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles, number TBC

Odesa Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast

Target: energy infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed:

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles shot down over Odesa region

 

February 2023

3

09.02.2023

TOT Crimea

-

UAV Orion

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance UAV, destroyed. Probable basing at Sevastopol and Dzhankoy airfields

4

10.02.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 28 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast Vinnytsia Oblast:

13 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles shot down over the Оdesa Oblast

Targets: energy infrastructure facilities.

2 Russian Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles crossed the state border of Ukraine with the Republic of Moldova and Romania

5

11.02.2023

TOT Crimea

SU-24М

Bastion-P CMC

4 aerial bombs of an unknown type

3 P-800 Oniks cruise missiles

Zmiinyi Island, Odesa Oblast

Probable targets: observation posts and military/civilian infrastructure on the coast

6

14.02.2023

TOT Crimea

Missile attack

Missile type undetermined

ТОТ Chaplynka, Kherson Oblast

Targets: civilian infrastructure objects to be used as a false flag operation against the Armed Forces of Ukraine

7

16.02.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship (frigate)

Bastion-P CMC

Up to 8 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

1 P-800 Oniks cruise missiles

Detailed data on the Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles та P-800 Oniks unavailable

Targets: energy and industry infrastructure facilities in Dnipropetrovsk and Kirovohrad Oblasts. Civilian objects hit

8

18.02.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Grechany, Khmelnytskyi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Targets: energy infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed: 2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

 

March 2023

9

09.03.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine SU-35

Up to 20 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 Kh-31P-type missiles

6 Kh-59-type missiles

Odesa Oblast
Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast
Lviv Oblast

Targets: energy infrastructure facilities and Ukrainian air defense system elements.

Destroyed:

2 Kh-31P missiles

6 Kh-59 missiles

10

14.03.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

SU-24

4 Kh-31P-type missiles

Odesa Oblast

Targets: Ukrainian air defense facilities.

Destroyed: all 4 missiles.

Civilian infrastructure

facilities damaged by the debris

11

21.03.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

SU-35

4 Kh-59-type missiles – most likely, Kh-59МК

Odesa Oblast

Destroyed: 2 missiles, while the other 2 hit a civilian infrastructure facility – a UOC MP church

12

23.03.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

SU-35

2 Kh-59-type missiles

Odesa Oblast

 

Destroyed: 2 missiles

 

April 2023

13

19.04.2023

TOT Crimea (possibly, Cape Chauda)

-

12 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast

Targets: elements of the Ukrainian air defense system and critical infrastructure.

A recreational infrastructure facility hit.

Destroyed:

10 SHAHED-136/131 UAVs

14

24.04.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

2 Lancet-type UAVs

1 Merlin-ВР type UAV (Orlan-30)

Kherson Oblast

Destroyed: all

15

26.04.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

5 Lancet-type UAVs

 

1 Merlin-ВР type UAV

Kherson Oblast

Destroyed: all

16

27.04.2023

North of TOT Crimea

Iskander OTMS

Up to 4 Iskander-K cruise missiles. Number TBC

Mykolaiv Oblast

Hit: A Mykolaiv apartment high-rise.

Casualties: 1 person dead and 17, including 1 child, wounded

 

May 2023

17

03.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

2 Lancet-type UAVs

1 Merlin-ВР type UAV

1 tactical UAV

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

18

7-8.05.2023

TOT Crimea airspace

ТU-22М3

Kh-22-type anti-ship missiles, number unconfirmed

Odesa, Bilhorod-Dnistrovs’kyi, Odesa Oblast

Targets: Ukrainian defense forces military facilities and civilian infrastructure that the Russians believe is used for military purposes

19

08.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

2 Lancet-type UAVs

 

1 ZALA-type UAV

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

20

09.05.2023.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Kyiv

Ukraine’s eastern regions

Targets: Ukrainian defense forces military and infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed:

9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

21

14.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

1 ZALA-type and 2 Orlan-10-type reconnaissance UAVs

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

22

14.05.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

25 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

Official data n/a

Destroyed:

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

18 Shahed-136/131 type attack UAVs

23

16.05.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine Iskander OTMS

Up to 9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

3 Iskander-M missiles

6 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

Mykolaiv Oblast

Targets: civilian infrastructure facilities that the Russians believe is used for military purposes.

Destroyed:

9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

3 Iskander-M type ballistic missiles

No official data on the UAV desrtuction

24

17-18.05.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine Iskander OTMS

Up to 6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Up to 2 Iskander-K missiles

Vinnytsia Oblast

Khmelnytskyi Oblast
Odesa Oblast

Targets: Ukrainian defense forces military and infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed:

6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 Iskander-K type cruise missiles.

25

19.05.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

Up to 9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Data n/a

Destroyed: 3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

26

20.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

3 Lancet-type, 1 Merlin-ВР-type & 1 Orlan-10-type reconnaissance UAV

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

27

21.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

-

1 Merlin-ВР type, 1 Orlan-10-type & 1 ZALA-type UAV

Kherson Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

28

22.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

Iskander OTMS

2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: military and infrastructure facilities

29

30.05.2023

North of TOT Crimea

 

2 Merlin-ВР-type UAV, 2 Lancet-type & 1 Orlan-10-type UAV

Mykolaiv Oblast

Reconnaissance activity.

Destroyed: all

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