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MOSCOW, Apr 27 A Black Sea Fleet frigate fired Kalibr missiles at Ukrainian military facilities, follows from the video of the Russian Ministry of Defense published on Wednesday.As part of the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine, which began on February 24, the frigate of the Black Sea Fleet with cruise missiles Kalibr attacked Ukrainian military facilities.
The Ministry of Defense showed footage of the Ukrainian fortified area in the residential sectorOn the footage of the Ministry of Defense — a volley launch of four missiles from the Black Sea at designated ground targets. The Caliber family combines several types of missiles at once: anti-ship ZM-54K/ZM-54T with a penetrating high-explosive warhead and ZM -14K/ZM-14T for strikes against ground targets and also equipped with high-explosive warheads. All models are unified in size and fit into the cells of the universal ship-based firing systems ZS14. Variants for submarines «Caliber-PL» are loaded into 533-mm torpedo tubes. The Russian Navy is actively using «Caliber» for delivering precision strikes against military infrastructure in Ukraine. The baptism of missiles took place in Russia's counter-terrorist operation in Syria. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine.» According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, as of March 25, they completed the main tasks of the first stage — they significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. On April 19, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced the start of the next phase of the special operation. Volnovakha, a strategically important regional center south of Donetsk, and Mariupol, the largest city on the coast of the Sea of Azov, have been liberated in the DPR; the remnants of the enemy grouping are blocked on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant. In the LPR, according to the RF Ministry of Defense, as of March 25, 93% of the former Luhansk region, within whose borders a republic was proclaimed in 2014, has been liberated. The cities of Severodonetsk, Lysychansk and a number of other settlements of this agglomeration remain under the control of Kyiv.