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What did the Sevastopol drone strikes show?
Summary
A retrospective on the Ukrainian drone strikes on Sevastopol, Crimea, reported on 20 February 2026.
What happened in Sevastopol on 20 February 2026? Ukrainian drone strikes hit the Crimean port city, killing one person and damaging several buildings.
The attack was one more episode in the Battle of Crimea, the series of maritime and overland assaults and counter-assaults that has formed part of the Russo-Ukrainian war since February 2022. Crimea has been occupied by Russia since 2014. It served as a base for the Russian occupation of Kherson Oblast and Zaporizhzhia Oblast, which followed on 24 February 2022, when major hostilities between the two countries began.
The strikes on 20 February 2026 show that Sevastopol remained a target of Ukrainian drones years after the full-scale invasion began. The reported toll was one death and damage to several buildings.
