The recent missile attack on the headquarters of Russia's Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol was designed by the "overseers" of the Kiev regime, first rank captain of the reserve, military expert Vasily Dandykin told Sputnik.
"Of course, all this is being designed with the help of overseers and [their] 'seniors'," the expert noted.
Dandykin added that the United States and its allies use strategic underwater drones, satellites and unnamed aircraft vehicles to collect necessary data, which will allow them to develop ways to bypass the Russian missile defense.
Supporting his statement, he recalled that before the missile strike on the fleet headquarters, Russian air defense forces thwarted multiple drone attacks.
"We had a massive drone raid yesterday, it is likely that they were checking our readiness. Our [forces] repulsed attacks, everything was shot down," Dandykin explained.
On Thursday, Russian air defense systems have neutralized two Ukrainian drones near the coast of Crimea and in the Tuapse region of Krasnodar Territory in the Russian south, according to the Russian Defense Ministry.
The expert stressed that Russia is ready for such incidents.
"But the fact is that our Black Sea sailors are ready for such situations from the point of improving security, and so on. It's obvious," he highlighted.
In addition, Dandykin assumed that Ukraine "cracks up" because of the Russian strikes on Ukraine's military facilities.
"As far as I know, we also struck Kiev today, they [the Defense Ministry] say everything that was supposed to strike targets did it. The enemy cracks up, using cruise missiles, mainly the imported ones," he underlined, adding: "They attack, as I understand it, mainly from the south of Ukraine, from Odessa."
On Thursday, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that the military on Wednesday night hit Ukraine's radio-technical reconnaissance and sabotage training centers.
The expert noted that shelling the Russian Bryansk region, Belgorod, Kursk as well as Kherson region, Zaporozhye, including nuclear power plants, and attacks on "long-suffering" Donetsk and Gorlovka town "is probably the only thing [Ukraine] is capable of now, given the situation their counteroffensive is in."
Moreover, he argued that it is needed to "strike at the decision-making centers" in retaliation.
"We need to be even more vigilant and more effective," Dandykin concluded.
Earlier today, Governor of Sevastopol Mikhail Razvozhaev said that Ukraine "launched a missile attack" on the fleet headquarters," noting that "a fragment fell near the Lunacharsky Theater."