Attacks on Crimea 2022 is a series of air and missile attacks by the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the Crimean Peninsula from where the Russian Army launched an offensive on Southern Ukraine during the Russian invasion of Ukraine and occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia Oblasts and began the three-month siege of Mariupol. Ukrainian forces received American HIMARS missile systems over the summer, so Ukrainian forces began artillery, missile and drone airstrikes on Crimea on August 9 with an attack on Novofederovka.