Direct proof of use
The documented 5N84A Oborona-14 case in the 2014 Russia-Ukraine War is a Russian radar at Yevpatoriia in occupied Crimea. WarSpotting lists the item as a Russian 5N84A Oborona-14 VHF early-warning radar, records it as operated at Yevpatoriia on October 20, 2023, and records it as destroyed there on March 9, 2026.
Ukrainian official and state-linked reporting on the March 8-9, 2026 operation said units of Ukraine's Special Operations Forces destroyed a 5N84A Oborona-14 radar, a Nebo-U radar, and two radars in a radio-transparent dome at occupied Yevpatoriia. Those reports identify the system as part of Russian radar infrastructure in Crimea rather than as a Ukrainian-operated system.
Sources: WarSpotting Yevpatoriia 5N84A Loss Record, Ukrinform SOF Crimea Radar Strike, ArmyInform SOF Crimea Radar Strike, Ukrainska Pravda SOF Crimea Radar Strike
Timeline
WarSpotting's visual-loss record gives the clearest dated pre-strike marker, listing the radar as operated at Yevpatoriia on October 20, 2023. In December 2024, Suspilne Crimea reported an Atesh claim that Russian forces had placed 5N84A and Oborona-14 radar stations at a military unit near Yevpatoriia to monitor airspace and pass data to Russian command posts.
The destruction claim is dated to the night of March 8-9, 2026. Ukrinform, ArmyInform, and Ukrainska Pravda all attributed the strike report to Ukraine's Special Operations Forces, and WarSpotting separately lists the same 5N84A Oborona-14 loss at Yevpatoriia on March 9, 2026.
Sources: WarSpotting Yevpatoriia 5N84A Loss Record, Suspilne Crimea Atesh Yevpatoriia Radar Report, Ukrinform SOF Crimea Radar Strike, ArmyInform SOF Crimea Radar Strike, Ukrainska Pravda SOF Crimea Radar Strike
Narrative
In this conflict record, Oborona-14 appears as a Russian long-range air-defense sensor in occupied Crimea. The parent system is a transportable VHF early-warning radar used to detect airborne targets and support air-defense command networks, which matches how the Yevpatoriia site was described in defense reporting on the March 2026 strike.
Defense Express described the Oborona-14 and Nebo-U systems hit at Yevpatoriia as long-range radars used for airspace monitoring and early warning. The same reporting placed them in a wider set of Russian radar assets in Crimea, including radars housed under a radio-transparent dome.
Ukrainska Pravda separately reported a CyberBoroshno assessment that the Yevpatoriia radar identified by Special Operations Forces as 5N84A Oborona-14 may have been a modernized 5N84AE2/AM-type system visually related to the older Oborona-14 family. That modernization assessment is source-attributed; the conflict-use claim here rests on the SOF-linked strike reports and the WarSpotting loss record.
Sources: RusArmy Oborona-14 Profile, Defense Express Oborona-14 Crimea Strike Context, Ukrainska Pravda CyberBoroshno 5N84AE2 Assessment, WarSpotting Yevpatoriia 5N84A Loss Record
