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New successful operations in the Crimea: Attacked the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet
The headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet, 08/20/2022
A drone flew to the roof of the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, the occupation "governor" of the city Mikhail Razvozhaev said on August 20. “Unfortunately, he was not shot down, although they worked as a rifle weapon. There was low. There are no victims,” the Postrozozhaev post said. He later wrote that still the drone was shot down "right above the headquarters of the fleet", fell on the roof and caught fire.
On August 19, Razvozhaev said that the Ukrainian drone was shot down in the area of the Belbek airfield near Sevastopol. On the same day, the "member of the Main Council of the" occupation "administration of the Zaporizhzhya region" Vladimir Rogov said that the Ukrainian drone was shot down in Kerch - "at a great distance from the Crimean bridge."
Late in the evening of August 19, Razvozhaev said that the drones were knocked down over Sevastopol. After 8 pm, the inhabitants of Yevpatoria heard explosions and saw traces of air defense in the sky. On the evening of August 20, the air defense worked again in Sevastopol and Olenevka in the west of Crimea over the village of Olenevka .
On July 31, as the Russian authorities stated, the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet was already attacked by a drone with a low -power explosive device. Then 6 people suffered.
On August 9, explosions occurred at a military airfield in the village of Novofedorovka, Saksky district of Crimea. Ukraine did not officially take responsibility for the attack. The command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine announced that the Russians had lost nine aircraft.
On August 16, a series of explosions occurred in a warehouse of ammunition next to the village of Mayskoye in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea and at a military air base in the village of Guards under Simferopol. In May, the railway track was damaged, at the same time a transformer substation caught fire in Dzhankoy. The Russian Ministry of Defense officially recognized the attack in the May sabotage.
After the explosions in Novofedorovka, reports of the resignation of the commander of the Black Sea Fleet Igor Osipov appeared in the telegram channels. This was confirmed: on August 19, the head of the Naval Academy, Viktor Sokolov, said that he was appointed new commander of the Black Sea Fleet. Osipov for a long time disappeared from the public space after the destruction of the Moscow cruiser, the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet in April.
A senior source in the American administration told Politico that the United States supports Ukrainian blows to Crimea if Kiev considers them necessary. “Any goal that they decide to pursue on sovereign Ukrainian land is by definition of self -defense,” the source said, adding that the United States does not determine the goals for blows.
The adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak wrote on August 17 on Twitter that the Crimean bridge needs to be destroyed. “In international law it is recorded: Crimea is Ukraine. Therefore, this bridge is a banal object of illegal construction, which Ukraine did not give permission to build. It is harmful to the ecology of the peninsula, and therefore should be dismissed. Voluntarily or not - not significantly,” Podolyak said. The bridge across the Kerch Strait was built after the annexation of Crimea and solemnly opened by Vladimir Putin in May 2018. The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov in an interview with The Washington Post spoke about the new Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces: they hope to undermine the ability of Moscow to hold the front line with blows to important military facilities in the depths of the occupied territory. Reznikov explained that Ukraine lacks weapons and ammunition for a full -scale counterattack and, in anticipation of the promised Western supplies of the APU, strive to undermine the potential of the enemy. “We use this strategy to devastate their reserves, destroy their warehouses, destroy their headquarters and command posts. This is our answer to their“ meat grinder, ”the minister said. He did not directly confirm Ukraine’s involvement in the explosions in the Crimea, but noted that they correspond to Ukrainian strategy.
On August 16, the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky called on Crimean and residents of other occupied territories not to approach military facilities. "I am now asking all our people in the Crimea, other regions in the south of the state, in the occupied areas of Donbass and Kharkiv region to be very careful. Please do not come close to the military facilities of the Russian army and all the places where they store ammunition and equipment where they keep their headquarters," Zelensky said.
According to the President of Ukraine, the causes of explosions in the occupied regions can be different, up to the "thugs", which Russian propagandists spoke of. “But they all have the meaning of all: the destruction of the logistics of the invaders, their ammunition, military and other equipment, command posts saves the lives of our people. The less the invaders have the opportunity to create evil and kill Ukrainians, the faster we will be able to end this war by the liberation of our land,” Zelensky emphasized.