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Report: Ukraine Destroys Russian Air Defense System Near Crimea’s Yevpatoriya 

A satellite image shows Sevastopol after a Ukrainian missile attack, in Crimea September 13, 2023. (BlackSky/Handout via Reuters)
A satellite image shows Sevastopol after a Ukrainian missile attack, in Crimea September 13, 2023. (BlackSky/Handout via Reuters)
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Report: Ukraine Destroys Russian Air Defense System Near Crimea’s Yevpatoriya 

A satellite image shows Sevastopol after a Ukrainian missile attack, in Crimea September 13, 2023. (BlackSky/Handout via Reuters)
A satellite image shows Sevastopol after a Ukrainian missile attack, in Crimea September 13, 2023. (BlackSky/Handout via Reuters)

Ukraine destroyed a Russian air defense system near the town of Yevpatoriya in annexed Crimea in an overnight drone and missile attack conducted by the Security Service of Ukraine and navy on Thursday, a Ukrainian intelligence source told Reuters.

Russia said its air defenses shot down 11 attack drones overnight over Crimea, which Russia seized and annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Reuters was unable to independently verify the accounts.

The Ukrainian source said drones blinded a Russian "Triumf" air defense system by attacking its radar and antenna. The navy then fired two Ukrainian-made Neptune cruise missiles at the system's launch complexes, the source said.

The Neptune anti-ship missile has been modified to attack ground targets, military analysts say.

The attack comes a day after Ukraine launched missiles at the Crimean port of Sevastopol, home to the Russian navy's Black Sea Fleet, in an attack that signalled Ukraine's growing missile capabilities.

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Vandals Attack French Telecoms Lines Days after Rail Sabotage

A high-speed train by French railway company SNCF travels on the Bordeaux-Paris route at reduced speed, at Chartres, northern France on July 26, 2024. AFP
A high-speed train by French railway company SNCF travels on the Bordeaux-Paris route at reduced speed, at Chartres, northern France on July 26, 2024. AFP
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Vandals Attack French Telecoms Lines Days after Rail Sabotage

A high-speed train by French railway company SNCF travels on the Bordeaux-Paris route at reduced speed, at Chartres, northern France on July 26, 2024. AFP
A high-speed train by French railway company SNCF travels on the Bordeaux-Paris route at reduced speed, at Chartres, northern France on July 26, 2024. AFP

Vandals attacked telecoms lines in parts of France overnight, disrupting some fixed and mobile services, the junior minister for digital matters, Marina Ferrari, said on X on Monday.
A police source said it was too early to tell if there was any link to sabotage on the high-speed rail network, which caused travel chaos hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on Friday.
Ferrari called the vandalism "cowardly and irresponsible" and said work was underway to get services back up and running.
According to Reuters, a spokesman for telecoms operator SFR said vandals had made cuts to its long-distance network in five different parts of France in the early hours of Monday.
The impact on clients was minimal because the network was designed to reroute traffic, he said.
Le Parisien newspaper reported earlier that cables in electrical cabinets had been cut in southern France, and that installations in the Meuse region near Luxembourg and the Oise area near Paris had been vandalized, affecting mainly fixed-line services.
Rail services only finally returned to normal on Monday morning, Transport Minister Patrice Vergriete said. Overall, around 800,000 people faced disruptions, including 100,000 whose trains had to be cancelled outright, he added.