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

16:45 31.05.2023

Crimea

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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