Ukraine’s Armed Forces Strike Bastion Coastal Missile System in Crimea. These Systems Launch Zircon Missiles

Ukraine struck a Bastion coastal missile launcher in occupied Crimea used by Russia to fire Zircon missiles. Several troop concentrations and military facilities were also targeted overnight.

Ukraine’s General Staff reported striking a launcher of the Bastion coastal missile system in occupied Crimea. The Russian army uses such launchers to fire Zircon anti-ship missiles, which it launches at ground targets in Ukraine. This was reported by ZN.ua.

“In the night of March 24, units of Ukraine’s Defense Forces struck a number of important military facilities of the Russian aggressor. In particular, a launcher belonging to the Bastion coastal missile system was hit near the village of Aktachi in the Bakhchysarai district of Crimea,” the statement said.

On Tuesday night, concentrations of occupation troops near Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region, Khoroshe in the Luhansk region, and Novozlatopil in the Zaporizhzhia region were also struck.

A Russian repair unit and a UAV command post in the Donetsk region were also targeted. The scale of the damage and the occupiers’ losses are still being clarified.

The Bastion coastal missile system is designed to destroy surface ships of various classes and types within amphibious formations, convoys, naval and carrier strike groups, as well as single ships and ground-based radar-contrast targets under conditions of intense fire and electronic countermeasures. It is from this missile system that the Russians launch 3M22 Zircon missiles, the use of which has increased in recent months.

The Zircon has a hypersonic ramjet engine, and its flight range is about 700 kilometers. Despite Russia’s claims that the missile is invulnerable, air defense systems have intercepted Zircons on several occasions, though only in regions where the appropriate countermeasures are available.