Drone Attack in Crimea: What is Known

On the evening of March 20, the city of Dzhankoy in northern Crimea was targeted in a drone attack. The head of the Republic, Sergey Aksyonov, reported that air defense measures were in place in the area, and debris from the drones damaged a house and a store, resulting in injuries.

“Unfortunately, one person has been injured. The Deputy Prime Minister of the Crimean Republic, Igor Nikolaevich Mikhailichenko, has arrived at the scene. The consequences are being assessed, and decisions regarding compensation will be made,” Aksyonov wrote on his Telegram channel.

According to Igor Ivin, the head of the Dzhankoy administration, a private house on Yuzhnaya Street was damaged, but no casualties were reported. “In the city center, near the seventh school, a grocery store caught fire. The electric network has been damaged, and nothing more,” Krym 24 quoted him as saying.

Ivin stated that a 33-year-old man was injured and taken to the hospital with shrapnel wounds. He also noted that the injured person’s life and health are not in danger.

“Shrapnel from the drones has been found on two streets,” he added.

Later, Oleg Kryuchkov, an advisor to the head of Crimea, detailed that one drone was shot down at the Dzhankoy Technical School and fell between the academic building and the dormitory. “There are no military facilities in the vicinity. Residential areas are being shelled. In addition to explosives, each contained shrapnel; they wanted to take revenge on the Crimeans for their choice,” he wrote.

Kryuchkov also referred to the reports from Ukrainian military intelligence regarding the outcomes of the attack on Dzhankoy as “moist fantasies.” According to him, the railway and infrastructure have not been damaged, and trains are operating on schedule.

Additionally, the advisor posted photographs of drone shrapnel on his Telegram channel. Kryuchkov stated that this drone had attacked the Dzhankoy Technical School.