Database of Russian Missile and UAV Attacks on Ukrainian Regions from the Occupied Crimea in January-February 2024

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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 presents the database of 2024 Russian Missile and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Attacks on the Regions of Ukraine from the Occupied Crimea.

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- ТОТ – temporarily occupied territories
- CMC – coastal missile complex
UAV — unmanned aerial vehicle
BM — ballistic missile
AShM – anti-ship missile
SLCM – sea-launched cruise missile
the original data is taken from the official Air Force Command
of the Armed Forces of Ukraine website www.facebook.com/kpszs

In January 2024, the Russian Armed Forces (RAF) continued to strike all of Ukraine, using the temporarily occupied territory (TOT) of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea (ARC) and the adjacent Black Sea as launchpads for strike and reconnaissance drones, and cruise and ballistic missiles.

Our prognosis as to the increased use of the Shahed-136/131 attack drones and Mohajer-6 reconnaissance drones, have started to materialize.

We anticipate that in the future, the use of strike UAVs will remain at the level of up to 200-230 drones per month on the grounds of the large-scale assembly of those in the RF, as proven by provided by numerous video footage, as well as the exhaustion and attempts to accumulate missile stock on the eve of the spring-summer campaign on the East and Taurida theater of military operations (TVD).

The March-April strike targets are likely to be the areas of concentration of the spring-summer campaign and military and civilian logistics infrastructure thereof.

In January-February 2024, for attacks from Crimea on the Ukrainian regions the Russian Armed Forces used at least:

• 6 units of Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles from ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, 3 of which — in February

• 11 Iskander-type ballistic missiles, 2 of which — in February

• P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles were not used in January-February 2024

• 392 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs launched from Crimea and from the regions of the Russian Federation together, 169 of which — in February

• 82 Shahed-136/131 UAVs Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs launched from Crimea, without simultaneous attacks from the RF 

• 9 reconnaissance ZALA type UAVs, 3 of which — in February

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2024 Russian Missile and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Attacks on the Regions of Ukraine from the Occupied Crimea

January 2024

01.01.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, Balaklava — TOT Crimea; Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF
Weapon: 90 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (87 destroyed)
Affected areas: Odesa, Lviv, Khmelnytskyi, Vinnytsia, Kirovohrad, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Dnipro, Kherson, Chernihiv, Donetsk and Sumy Oblasts
Targets: port infrastructure, agro-industrial and industrial enterprises of the military-industrial complex, and critical energy infrastructure
Impact: Odesa, Odesa Oblast: a port terminal and private houses damaged; several children dead
Dnipro: an industrial enterprise damaged
Lviv Oblast: the R. Shukhevych Museum in Bilohorshchya destroyed; the dormitory of the University in Dubliany where S. Bandera studied damaged
Mykolaiv Oblast: an infrastructure facility damaged.

02.01.2024
Launch Area: Black Sea, Cape Chauda, northern regions TOT Crimea; Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Weapon & carrier: surface ship or submarine — 3 Kalibr-class ballistic missile systems (3 destroyed); 35 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (35 destroyed); 1 reconnaissance UAV (ZALA type) and 5 Lancet-type kamikaze drones — all 6 destroyed
Affected areas: mostly Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast and Kharkiv Oblast
Targets: energy and other critical infrastructure, industrial and civilian facilities
Impact: warehouses of the M-TAC tactical clothing manufacturer and residential buildings in several districts of Kyiv hit with civilian casualties; blackout for 250,000 UKRENERGO customers.

05.01.2024.
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, northern regions TOT Crimea; Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Weapon: 29 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (21destroyed); 2 Merlin-BP reconnaissance UAVs and 1 Orlan-10 UAV — all 3 destroyed
Affected areas: Kherson, Cherkasy, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, and Dnipro Oblasts
Targets: agro-industrial and energy infrastructure — grain storage hangars, energy distribution hubs and power
Impact: Cherkasy Oblast — power lines damaged resulting in blackout for 5 districts; Kherson Oblast — an administrative building and a modular town in Vysoke village damaged; Mykolaiv Oblast— an industrial enterprise hit.

08.01.2024
Launch Area: Dzhankoy district, Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea
Weapon & carrier: Iskander air defense system, 6 units of Iskander-M missiles (none destroyed)
Affected areas: Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Khmelnytskyi and Dnipro Oblasts
Targets: critical infrastructure, civilian and military industrial facilities
Impact: Zaporizhzhia — missiles hit residential areas
Dnipropetrovsk Oblast — in Novomoskovsk, three administrative buildings, two gas stations, a five-story building, and a car damaged and about 30 people, including 4 children, injured. In Kryvyi Rih, a shopping center and more than 20 private houses damaged.

17.01.2024
Launch Area: northern regions TOT Crimea
Weapon: 1 reconnaissance UAV (type unknown) and 1 Lancet kamikaze drone - both destroyed
Affected areas: Kherson and Mykolaiv Oblast
Objectives: reconnaissance in the frontline areas.

25.01.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, TOT Crimea; Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)
Weapon: 14 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (11 destroyed)
Affected areas: Odesa, Odesa Oblast and Mykolaiv Oblast
Targets: port and industrial infrastructure
Impact: Odesa — debris hit a high-rise building in Khadzhybeyskyi district, a civilian building in Prymorskyi district, and a warehouse of a furniture factory in Odesa's industrial district, causing a massive fire.

26.01.2024
Launch Area: Armyansk vicinity/northern regions TOT Crimea
Weapon/carrier: Iskander air defense system (S-300) and 3 units of unidentified type of munitions
Affected area: Kherson
Impact: a kindergarten, a high-rise building and a shopping center damaged.

30.01.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, TOT Crimea; Kursk, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF
Weapon: 35 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (15 destroyed)
Affected areas: Uman district, Cherkasy Oblast; Poltava, Vinnytsia, Kherson, Mykolaiv and Sumy Oblasts
Targets: fuel and energy sector infrastructure, civilian and military facilities near the front line and in central Ukraine. In particular, storage facilities and agricultural enterprises
Impact: central oblasts — energy facilities damaged; Kherson oblast — an agricultural enterprise destroyed.

30.01.2024
Launch Area: northern regions TOT Crimea
Weapon: 1 reconnaissance UAV of the Merlin-BP type and 2 kamikaze drones of the Lancet type. All 3 destroyed
Affected area: Kherson Oblast
Objectives: reconnaissance in the frontline regions.

31.01.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, northern regions TOT Crimea; Primorsko-Akhtarsk, Kursk, Voronezh region (RF).
Weapons/carrier: Iskander OTRK; 20 Shahed-136/131 strike UAVs (14 destroyed); 3 units of Iskander-M KR (none destroyed)
Affected areas: Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipro, Kirovohrad and Kharkiv Oblasts
Targets: critical civilian and military infrastructure of the frontline regions
Impact: in Kherson, the building of a humanitarian NGO was destroyed.

February 2024

02.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, Balaklava — TOT Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: 24 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (11 destroyed) and 1 reconnaissance ZALA UAV (destroyed).
Affected areas: Dnipropetrovsk, Kherson, Kirovohrad and Kharkiv Oblasts.
Targets: critical objects of industrial and energy infrastructure.
Impact: UKRENERGO substation in Kryvyi Rih damaged.

03.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: 14 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (9 destroyed).
Affected areas: Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr Oblasts.
Targets: critical objects of industrial and energy infrastructure.
Impact: UKRENERGO substation equipment and two high-voltage overhead lines damaged. Blackout for residential and industrial consumers in Kryvyi Rih.

07.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, NW regions and Sevastopol.
Weapon & carrier: Iskander OTRK and aircraft. 20 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (15 destroyed); 3 БР «Іскандер-М»; 4 КР типу Х-22 (32); 3 КРМБ «Калібр» (destroyed 3).
Affected areas: Kyiv; Кyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Lviv Oblasts.
Targets: industrial, utility and energy infrastructure.
Impact: Kyiv: underground communications damaged in the Dnipro district; fire and destruction in an 18-story high-rise, as well as cars burnt and a bodyshop fire in the Holosiivsky district.
Kyiv Oblast: at least 10 private houses, utility buildings and communications damaged in the Bucha and Fastiv districts.
Dnipropetrovsk: a utility company buildings and cars damaged in the Moscow district.
Mykolaiv: in the Korabelny district 3 residential homes destroyed; 71 buildings, two infrastructure facilities, a power line and a high-pressure gas pipeline damaged, at least one civilian dead and several injured.

08.02.24
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea.
Weapon: 17 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (11 destroyed).
Affected areas: Odesa, Odesa, Vinnytsia, Dnipropetrovsk and Mykolaiv Oblasts.
Targets: industrial and energy infrastructure.
Impact:
Odesa –- an educational institution and an unfinished high-rise building damaged.
Mykolaiv — over 20 buildings (private and high-rise), as well as office premises and athletics/recreation complex damaged; fire at an industrial enterprise.

09.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, Kursk Oblast — RF.
Weapon: 16 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (10 destroyed); 2 reconnaissance ZALA -type UAVs (both destroyed).
Affected areas: Kharkiv; Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv and Kherson Oblasts.
Targets: agricultural, fuel and energy infrastructure
Impact: Kharkiv –- as a result of a residential area fire, 15 private homes completely destroyed by fire and 8 civilians died.
Kharkiv Oblast –- civilian infrastructure hit.
Dnipropetrovsk – high-pressure gas pipeline and a power line damaged.
Mykolaiv обл. –- a farm hit; warehouse buildings, trucks and a bus damaged.

10.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, Kursk Oblast — RF.
Weapon: 31 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (23 destroyed).
Affected areas: Odesa and Kharkiv Oblasts.
Targets: port and energy infrastructure.
Impact: Odesa Oblast –- the Reni and Ismail ports hit.

11.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, Balaklava — TOT Crimea.
Weapon: 45 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (40 destroyed).
Affected areas: Kyiv, Odesa, Mykolaiv, Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk and Poltava Oblasts.
Targets: port and industrial infrastructure, fuel/energy infrastructure and agribusiness.
Impact:
Odesa – a port infrastructure item damaged
Odesa Oblast – Ismail and Ismail district port objects damaged.
Kyiv Oblast – warehouses, service station, hangar, an enterprise administration building, a passenger car and a forklift damaged.  

13.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda, Balaklava — TOT Crimea, airspace around Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: 23 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (16 destroyed 16).
Affected areas: Kherson, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts.
Targets: infrastructure.
Impact:
Odesa — an unfinished and several occupied high-rise buildings in the coastal area damaged.

22.02.2024
Launch Area: Black Sea.
Weapon & carrier: aircraft. 1 Kh-P anti-ship missile (destroyed).
No additional data available.

23.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, Black Sea waters around Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: aircraft. 2 Kh-22-type cruise missiles and 31 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (23 destroyed).
Affected areas: Odesa, Mykolaiv and Dnipropetrovsk Oblast.
Targets: industrial and port infrastructure.
Impact:
Odesa — an enterprise in the coastal area damaged, 4 civilians killed.
Dnipro — high-rise apartment buildings damaged, several flats destroyed, 2 civilians dead and 8 injured.

24.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: 12 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (12 destroyed).
Affected areas: Odesa, Mykolaiv and Kirovohrad Oblasts.
Targets: port infrastructure.
Impact:
Odesa — in the Primorsky district buildings damaged. As a result of fire in one of the houses due to the drone downed, a 70-year-old man dead.

25.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea and Primorsko-Akhtarsk — RF.
Weapon: 18 Shahed-136/131 UAVs (16 destroyed).
Affected areas: Dnipro; Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Kirovohrad, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia Oblasts.
Targets: industrial infrastructure.
Impact: Dnipro and Nikopol regions of the Dnipropetrovsk Oblast: private homes, high-rise apartment buildings and power lines damaged.

26.02.2024
Launch Area: Cape Chauda — TOT Crimea, northern regions.
Weapon & carrier: Iskander OTRK. 1 Iskander-M BM.
Affected areas: Dnipro.
Targets: industrial infrastructure.
Impact: Dnipro: private homes and high-rise apartment buildings damaged.

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For reference:
Over the 12 months of 2023, the Russian Armed Forces used the occupied Crimea to strike at the regions of Ukraine, including with at least:

• 230 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles – from ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (no launches registered since September 25, 2023)
• 1250 Shahed-136/131 UAVs launches, not including those launched from the Russian regions; 62 Iskander ballistic missiles
• 25 P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles.

Find the full Database of Russian Missile and UAV Attacks on Ukrainian Regions from the Occupied Crimea in January-December 2023 here.

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This article has been prepared with the support of the European Union in Ukraine. The content of the article is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily reflect the position of the EU