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However, getting through the air defenses on a "direct" path would be very difficult. I would guess the launch came from over the Sea of Azov, which would be a "surprise" trajectory and would avoid all the air defense in south Kherson and north Crimea. 

Could each of the boats been tasked to illuminate the targets as their primary goal?

Another missle path alternative is that it waa launched from near Odessa and took a path over the northern Black Sea. Ukraine took over some drilling platforms there a day before, removing a Russian radar system.

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However, getting through the air defenses on a "direct" path would be very difficult. I would guess the launch came from over the Sea of Azov, which would be a "surprise" trajectory and would avoid all the air defense in south Kherson and north Crimea. 

Could each of the boats been tasked to illuminate the targets as their primary goal?

Another missle path alternative is that it waa launched from near Odessa and took a path over the northern Black Sea. Ukraine took over some drilling platforms there a day before, removing a Russian radar system.