AIBRIEF
A second consecutive strike on a Russian electronic warfare site in Crimea — days after the first — alongside a 1,000+ km deep strike on oil infrastructure in Bashkortostan.
Ukraine struck the Black Sea Fleet's 475th Independent Electronic Warfare Center at Cape Fiolent in occupied Sevastopol for the second time in five days on Saturday morning, Aug. 1, per APA reporting citing Kyiv Post. Ukraine's HUR military intelligence first hit the same site on July 26-27.
Paired with the repeat strike, Ukrainian drones struck oil-refining infrastructure in Ufa, Bashkortostan — more than 1,000 kilometers from the front — demonstrating that deep-range reach is now routine rather than exceptional. The Russian Defense Ministry said air defenses intercepted 274 UAVs across 16 regions and the Crimean peninsula and called the scale "unprecedented." The 274 figure is a party-to-conflict count that tracks launches claimed by Moscow, not the number that reached targets.
Ufa hosts three major refineries; the specific facility struck was not confirmed at publication. Local monitoring channels and social-media footage showed multiple localized fires, and Russia's civil aviation authority, Rosaviatsiya, imposed flight restrictions at Ufa International Airport, suspending arrivals and departures.
Cape Fiolent houses strategic jammers including the Murmansk-BN long-range system, Krasukha-2 and Krasukha-4, and the Zhitel: high-power jammers designed to disrupt radar, drones, and communications rather than shoot down incoming aircraft. The Crimean Wind monitoring group cited satellite imagery showing active fires in Sevastopol after eight reported explosions. Separate blazes were recorded near the Kaya-Bash heights air-defense base.
Friday's SBU and AFU operations had already hit Yevpatoria aircraft-storage hangars, Port of Taman infrastructure, and the Lukoil-Volgogradneftepererabotka refinery, Kyiv Post reported.