Ukraine on Saturday morning launched another missile attack on Sevastopol on the occupied Crimean Peninsula, a Russian-installed official said, a day after an attack on the headquarters of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet that left a serviceman missing and the main building smoldering.
Sevastopol was put under an air raid alert for about an hour after debris from intercepted missiles fell near a pier, Gov. Mikhail Razvozhayev wrote on the messaging app Telegram. He later added that another missile fragment fell in a park in northern Sevastopol, parts of which had to be cordoned off. Ferry traffic in the area was also halted and later resumed.
Loud blasts were also heard near Vilne in northern Crimea, followed by rising clouds of smoke, according to a pro-Ukraine Telegram news channel that reports on developments on the peninsula. Crimea, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, has been a frequent target for Ukrainian forces since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
I’m no military expert but read/watch enough stuff to make an educated rest. You are pretty much correct. Attack them further and further in occupied territory forces them to reduce cover on their front lines.
Ukraine has also been explicitly targeting Russian long-range air defense systems. Creating more and more gaps or at least reducing the overlap of Russian defenses. That coupled with fancy air-launched ground attack missiles which are designed to be hard to detect and intercept, coming fast and low from a mountainous area making it extra hard to intercept them.