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

The Bastion coastal missile system at a firing exercise in Crimea. Photo from the Blackseanews archives

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-September 2023.

Over the first 9 months of 2023, the Russian Armed Forces used the occupied Crimea to strike at the regions of Ukraine, including with:

230 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles – totaling 26 missiles monthly – from ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, whose main base is in the occupied Crimean Peninsula

590 – 65 monthly —Shahed-136/131 UAVs, 40 Iskander ballistic missiles and 17 P-800 Oniks anti-ship missiles.

An analysis on the subject will follow shortly...

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

 

June 2023

30

8.06.2023
9.06.2023.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Cherkasy Oblast
Kharkiv Oblast

Civilian infrastructure facilities hit

31

12.06.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Kharkiv Oblast

Residential area hit

32

14.06.23.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast

Destroyed:

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

1 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missile hit an office center, causing numerous civilian casualties

33

16.06.2023.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Kyiv Oblast

Destroyed:

6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

34

19.06.2023.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast

Destroyed:

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

35

24.06.2023

Black Sea waters

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Surface ship Submarine

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

 

N-W region of the Black Sea

Destroyed:

1 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missile

2 Shahed-136/131 type attack UAVs

36

26.06.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast

Destroyed:

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles.

1 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missile hit a civilian infrastructure object in Odesa

37

30.06.2023.

North of TOT Crimea

Iskander OTMS

1 Iskander ballistic missile

Kherson Oblast

According to the available information, the southern part of Antonivskyi Bridge (Kherson) hit

 

July 2023

38

02.07.2023.

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Data n/a

Destroyed: all

39

06.07.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

10 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Lviv Oblast

Targets: educational infrastructure facilities, residential houses and college dormitories.

Destroyed: 7 out of 10 missiles

40

13.07.2023.

Black Sea waters

North of TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine Iskander OTMS

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

1 Iskander ballistic missiles

Kyiv Oblast

Destroyed: 9 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

41

15.07.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

-

6 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast Mykolaiv Oblast

The Shaheds-136/131 were likely launched from the Chauda training ground area in Crimea

42

18.07.2023

Black Sea waters

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Surface ship Submarine

10 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

36 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

The Kalibrs were likely launched from the Russian frigate Admiral Esse, while the Shaheds 136/131 –- from the Chauda training ground area in Crimea.

Destroyed:

6 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

31 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

1 reconnaissance UAV of an unknown type

43

19.07.2023

Black Sea waters

ТОТ Crimea airspace

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Surface ship – likely small missile ship Ingushetia and frigate Admiral Essen ТU-22М3 SU-35 Bastion-P CMC

16 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

8 Х-22 cruise missiles

6 Oniks-type cruise missiles

1 Х-59 air-to-surface missile

32 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure, civilian critical infrastructure and retail network facilities.

Destroyed:

13 Kalibr type cruise missiles

1 Kh-59 air-to-surface missile;

23 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

44

20.07.2023

Black Sea waters

ТОТ Crimea airspace

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Surface ship

8 ТU-22М3 Bastion-P CMC

7 Oniks-type cruise missiles;

4 Kh-22-type air-launched cruise missiles

3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

5 Iskander-K ground-launched cruise missiles

19 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast
Mykolaiv Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure, civilian facilities and retail facilities.

Destroyed:

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

3 Iskander-K ground-launched cruise missiles

13 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

45

21.07.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea airspace

Surface ship Submarine Aircraft

Up to 7 missiles, including 3 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast

Targets: Grain warehouses in Bilhorod-Dnistrovs’kyi district

46

23.07.2023

Black Sea waters

TOT Crimea airspace

Bastion-P CMC ТU-22М3 Iskander OTMS

5 Oniks-type cruise missiles

3 Kh-22-type air-launched cruise missiles

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

5 Iskander-K ground-launched cruise missiles

2 Iskander-M ballistic missiles

Odesa, Odesa Oblast

 

Damaged: Port infrastructure, at least 6 residential buildings, including apartment blocks, the Russian Orthodox Church in Ukraine Cathedral in one of Odesa’s central squares and two architectural monuments.

47

26.07.2023

Black Sea waters

Submarine

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Destroyed over Vinnytsia Oblast

Damaged by debris: civilian infrastructure

48

27.07.2023.

Black Sea waters

Submarine

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa Oblast

Damaged: Port infrastructure, including the administrative building and cargo terminal

49

31.07.2023

North of TOT Crimea

Iskander OTMS

2 Iskander ballistic missiles

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: residential and non-residential premises in Kryvyi Rih

 

 

August 2023

50

02.08.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

-

SHAHED-136/131- type UAVs, number unconfirmed

Kyiv, Kyiv Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure in the Odesa region & infrastructure facilities.

Destroyed:

23 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

51

06.08.2023

Black Sea waters

Surface ship Submarine

20 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Starokostyantyniv, Khmelnytskyi Oblast

Dubno, Rivne Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Vinnytsia Oblast

Targets: Air Force AFU facilities.

Destroyed:

17 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

52

14.08.2023.

Black Sea waters in the Yalta region

Frigate Admiral Makarov

Up to 8 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Odesa, Odesa Oblast

Targets: municipal infrastructure, educational institutions, commercial establishments, industrial enterprises and port infrastructure of Odesa

53

15.08.2023.

Black Sea waters in the Yalta region

Frigate Admiral Makarov

Up to 8 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Lviv Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Cherkasy Oblast

Volyn Oblast

 

Targets: military industry enterprises

54

16.08.2023.

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

-

Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs, number TBC

River Danube region, Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises

Destroyed:

13 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

55

23.08.2023
24.08.2023

Azov Sea waters

TOT Crimea

Surface ship – likely small missile ship of the Buyan-M- type
SU-34-type aircraft Iskander OTMS

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 Kh-59 guided missiles

1 Iskander ballistic missile

Up to 20 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Chornomorsk, Odesa Oblast; Zaporizhia Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises

56

28.08.2023.

Black Sea waters (Feodosiia region)

TOT Crimea

Surface ship Submarine

SU-34-type aircraft

4 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 Kh-59-type air-to-surface cruise missiles

Myrhorod, Poltava Oblast

Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: civilian objects of urban infrastructure & industrial enterprise (an oil mill).

Destroyed:

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 guided Kh-59 missiles

 

September 2023

57

01.09.2023

Black Sea waters (Feodosiia region)

Surface ship Submarine

2 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

Vinnytsia Oblast

Destroyed:

1 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles, while the other 1 hit a private enterprise

58

03.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

25 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

22 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

59

04.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

-

32 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast

Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

23 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

60

06.09.2023

Cape Chauda and North of TOT Crimea

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

Iskander OTMS

1 Iskander-M ballistic missile

25 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed: 15 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

1 Iskander-M ballistic missile.

61

07.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

33 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

25 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

62

08.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

20 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

16 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

63

13.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

Kursk Oblast (RF)

-

44 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Sumy Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

 

Destroyed:

32 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

64

14.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea) Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

22 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Sumy Oblast Zaporizhia Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

17 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

65

17.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

6 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Targets: agricultural enterprises in Odesa region.

Destroyed:

6 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

66

18.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

24 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

The south of Odesa Oblast

Snigurovsk Hromada, Mykolaiv Oblast

Targets: agricultural enterprises in Odesa and Mykolaiv regions.

Destroyed:

18 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAV

67

19.09.2023

Cape Chauda and North of TOT Crimea Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

Iskander OTMS

30 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Khmelnytskyi Oblast Poltava Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Targets: industrial enterprises in the southern, central and western regions of Ukraine.

Destroyed:

27 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

68

25.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea) Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

Waters around Sevastopol & Feodosiia

Small missile ship

Submarine Bastion-P CMC

Up to 12 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

2 P-800 Oniks cruise missiles

19 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed: 11 Kalibr sea-launched cruise missiles

19 Shahed-136/131 type attack UAVs

69

26.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea) Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

38 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Cherkasy Oblast Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

26 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

70

28.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

Primorsko-Akhtarsk (RF)

-

44 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Cherkasy Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

34 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

71

30.09.2023

Cape Chauda (TOT Crimea)

-

40 Shahed-136/131- type attack UAVs

Vinnytsia Oblast

Mykolaiv Oblast

Odesa Oblast

Targets: port infrastructure & industrial enterprises.

Destroyed:

30 Shahed-136/131-type attack UAVs

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