Ukraine destroys an offshore platform used for GPS spoofing

Last week, the Ukrainian Navy launched an operation to counter Russian GPS spoofing techniques by force. According to a spokesman, the Ukrainian military attacked and destroyed a decommissioned gas platform off Crimea that Russian units had been using as a transmitting station for GPS jamming devices.

“The occupiers used this site for GPS spoofing to compromise civilian navigation. We cannot allow this,” said Ukrainian Navy spokesman Dmytro Pletenchuk. “Half a day before the attack, the enemy had placed equipment and military personnel on the platform. There were no civilians there and the platform did not perform its regular functions.”

Pletenchuk stressed that Ukraine would not have attacked the facility if it were still functioning as a civilian facility. He told local media that this was not the first time Ukraine had destroyed an offshore jamming facility, and that Russia was using the equipment in an attempt to disrupt Ukrainian grain transportation.

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Separately, Ukraine’s Main Directorate of Defense Intelligence (GUR or HUR) said one of its Magura V5 suicide drone boats attacked and destroyed a Russian patrol boat off the coast of Crimea.

In an attack near the coastal village of Chornomorske on Friday evening, a HUR Magura V5 drone boat struck a KS 701 “Tunets” landing craft. The attack also damaged three other boats, the agency said. It released a video that appears to show a drone boat maneuvering under heavy fire from a Russian attack helicopter and approaching a marina; the end of the attack is not visible in the images.

On the night of August 9, 2024, near Chornomorske in the temporarily occupied Crimea, operators of the @DI_Ukraine The special unit “Group 13” destroyed another ship of the occupying forces – a Project KS 701 speedboat of the Tunets type – with the help of a MAGURA V5 naval combat drone. pic.twitter.com/uiR0kGAt8q

— Defence of Ukraine (@DefenceU) 10 August 2024