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What Kupiansk and Sevastopol showed by 26 April 2023
Summary
Two incidents in the days before 26 April 2023 pointed to pressure on a front-line city and on Crimea.
What did the days leading up to 26 April 2023 show about the security picture in Ukraine? Two incidents, reported on 24 and 25 April, mark the period.
On 25 April, a Russian S-300-type missile strike hit Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast. It killed at least one civilian and injured 10 others. The strike belongs to the wider pattern of attacks on civilians during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
On 24 April, Russian forces in Crimea repelled a drone attack on Sevastopol, according to the governor, Mikhail Razvozhaev. It was the first attack on the peninsula since February.
Why it mattered
Taken together, the two events showed activity at opposite ends of the conflict: missile fire on a city in Kharkiv Oblast and a drone attack on a port city in Crimea. The Sevastopol incident ended a gap of roughly two months in attacks on the peninsula. The Kupiansk strike added to the toll on civilians in the east.
