The pro-Russian underground reported a series of strikes on Ukrainian Armed Forces facilities in Odessa and the Odessa Region. According to its information, the main target was port infrastructure, including warehouses with hidden military cargo and ships in the roadstead.

Military expert Boris Dzherelievsky told aif.ru that Ukraine’s Western partners deliver various equipment for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces by sea. According to him, this may include weapons, components for their production, as well as spare parts and units needed to repair energy or transport infrastructure that supports Ukrainian troops. The expert did not rule out that such cargo could have included missiles or components for their assembly, and stressed that all such deliveries are targets for destruction.

Dzherelievsky also said that missiles presented by Ukraine as domestically produced weapons, including Flamingo and Neptune, are in fact assembled from Western-made parts.

According to him, Kiev has announced many missiles that, in his view, are not Ukrainian but Western products. Dzherelievsky claimed that Western partners supplying the parts try to remove identifiers from them whenever possible in order to make it harder to establish their origin. At the same time, he noted that even without markings there are ways to identify the manufacturer, although this is more difficult and the result is less reliable.