The destruction was caused by Ukrainian forces using ATACMS missiles during a strike on April 30. The strike likely damaged the Russian S-300/S-400 air defense system, including launchers and radar systems.

Russia's military uses the Dzhankoi, or Dzhankoy, air base in Crimea—which Moscow annexed in 2014—as a transport hub for personnel, ammunition and other equipment. On April 17, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a previous strike on the same airfield.

During the night attack on April 30, Russian air defense equipment was destroyed on the territory of the Russian troops' airfield in Dzhankoy, as evidenced by the relevant satellite images, according to RFE/RL.

Russian-affiliated Telegram channels reported explosions and a large-scale fire at a military airfield in Dzhankoy, Crimea.

Russian officials said on Tuesday that Ukraine had attacked Crimea with U.S.-produced Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) in an attempt to pierce Russian air defences of the annexed peninsula but that six had been shot down.

Ukrainian partisans have found a Russian military equipment park, missile depot belonging to the 12th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment of the 31st Air Defense Division in occupied Sevastopol, Atesh movement reported on Telegram on May 2.

Russian forces shot down a Ukrainian drone over occupied Crimea on May 2, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed.

Soldiers from one of Ukraine’s 117th Territorial Defense Brigade mobile air defense squads call themselves fowlers. The unit’s task is fending off Shahed kamikaze drones when Russia deploys these deadly birds to strike targets across the country,

Satellite images have surfaced online showing the aftermath of a Ukrainian attack on the Dzhankoy airfield on 29 April 2024. The airfield's defending S-300/400 system was again helpless against the MGM-140 ATACMS ballistic missile and was only saved by chance.