Ukrainian General Staff explains purpose of attack on Dzhankoi in Crimea

This was reported by Colonel Serhiy Baranov, acting Chief of the Main Directorate of Combat Strike Systems of the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, at the Military Media Center

"Dzhankoi is one of the hubs on the branch of the logistics route that goes to Melitopol or Kherson, for example. Therefore, one of the reasons for such a strike was to either completely cut or impede the logistics of the enemy groups located on our territory," said Baranov.

The representative of the General Staff emphasized that the explosions in the temporarily occupied city of Dzhankoi will not disrupt the supply of ammunition to the Crimean peninsula, as there are other railway junctions, in particular, in Simferopol.

• Late in the evening of March 20, explosions occurred in the temporarily occupied Crimea. Russian Kalibr-NK cruise missiles, which were being transported by rail to Dzhankoi, were reportedly destroyed.

• After the nighttime explosions in the city of Dzhankoi, Crimea, Russian occupation authorities introduced a municipal emergency regime. 

• Russian media reported damage to a depot, guard post, and warehouses at the railway station as a result of the attack on the evening of March 20 in the temporarily occupied Dzhankoi.  

• The Armed Forces of Ukraine said that the explosions on the railway on March 20 in the temporarily occupied city of Dzhankoi, Crimea, were a message to Russian forces that it was time to leave.