{"id":26966,"date":"2026-07-13T13:54:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:54:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26966"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:54:48","slug":"destroyed-to-ashes-footage-exposes-overnight-obliteration-of-russian-air-defense-hub-in-crimea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=26966","title":{"rendered":"Destroyed to Ashes: Footage Exposes Overnight Obliteration of Russian Air Defense Hub in Crimea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The evidence is undeniable. Newly released video footage captures a massive overnight operation by Ukraine\u2019s SSU Alpha (CSO &#8220;A&#8221;), completely wiping out a vital Russian military complex on the occupied peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The precision strike targeted the strategic &#8220;9th Kilometer&#8221; site along the former Kerch\u2013Feodosia highway, a combined base layout harboring high-value assets:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Units: This compound housed elements of both the 3rd Radio-Technical Regiment and the 18th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Hardware: The strike completely pulverized core and secondary radar arrays, a &#8220;Tor&#8221; air defense missile system, suspected S-300\/S-400 batteries, and a fleet of auxiliary combat vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the sky light up as the Kremlin&#8217;s air defense screen in eastern Crimea is utterly dismantled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"640\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 360 \/ 640;\" width=\"360\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/signal-2026-07-13-163414.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The evidence is undeniable. Newly released video footage captures a massive overnight operation by Ukraine\u2019s SSU Alpha (CSO &#8220;A&#8221;), completely wiping out a vital Russian military complex on the occupied peninsula. The precision strike targeted the strategic &#8220;9th Kilometer&#8221; site along the former Kerch\u2013Feodosia highway, a combined base layout harboring high-value assets: The Units: This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-uncategorized","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26969,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26966\/revisions\/26969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}