Ukraine’s HUR Eliminates Key Russian Air-Defense Systems in Crimea and South—Buk-M3, Nebo Radars Hit, Video

Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate (HUR) said on October 24 that its Active Operations Department detected and destroyed three high-value Russian air-defense systems during operations on October 23–24.

“On October 23 and 24, specialists from the HUR’s Active Operations Department detected and destroyed three high-value Russian air-defense systems,” the agency said in a public statement. 

According to HUR, the losses included a Buk-M3 self-propelled launcher and two 1Л119 “Nebo-SVU” surveillance radars. The agency reported the systems were eliminated on temporarily occupied territory in the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions and in the temporarily occupied Crimea. 

Video released by HUR shows strike and aftermath footage that, the agency said, confirms the destruction of radar installations and the Buk launcher. The statement framed the operation as a targeted effort to degrade the occupiers’ layered air-defense capabilities and to reduce the risk those systems pose to Ukrainian forces and civilian areas. 

Earlier, it was reported that Ukrainian forces destroyed a Russian 1L119 Nebo-SVU radar system in the temporarily occupied Kherson region.

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