2023-08-26 00:49:27
1 – The “brave” Ukrainian saboteurs
Here is the latest footage of the Sabotage and Reconnaissance Group (DRG), which, on August 24, hung a flag on a wooden house in a camp site in Western Crimea in pitch darkness and quickly retreated, shooting at a civilian place, with civilians and with no military.
place of the Ukrainian landing
“We are already in the Crimea,” one of the saboteurs said in a breathless whisper, then a quick photo for the net and ran back to the sea. In total, the “photo-special” operation lasted three minutes on the ground.
Russian version.
Special forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine arrived in Crimea on six speedboats and disembarked a group of about 40 people. In a short time they were attacked by the Russian army, four boats and 25 personnel were destroyed. The rest in two boats went to Nikolaev.
Ukrainian version
At night, the Ukrainians landed on two (according to other sources, four) boats in the Olenevka area. They made demonstration shots, filmed a propaganda video and walked back unhindered.
Be that as it may, the raid in its tactics resembles the attacks on the Belgorod region. So far the waters are being tested, but if an adequate response is not followed, the Ukrainians can send in more forces and try to establish a full-fledged bridgehead. At this stage, their task would not be to occupy the peninsula, but to organize a zone of instability there. Tarkhankut, given its geography, is the most suitable place to establish a foothold.
The day before, on August 23, Telegram channels reported a powerful explosion in the Crimea. A Ukrainian intelligence source said Ukrainian forces hit an air defense system near the village of Olenevka, on the Tarkhankut Peninsula.
Crimean bridge
The Russian Bastion coastal missile system was hit on Wednesday 23 August. This was reported by the adviser to the mayor of Mariupol Petr Andryushchenko and the Telegram channel of the Crimean wind.
Earlier, a Ukrainian intelligence source said Ukrainian forces had struck an air defense system near the village of Olenevka on the Tarkhankut Peninsula.
The bastion is one of the delivery systems for the Onyx anti-ship missiles, which the Russians use to strike military targets in southern Ukraine.
Il Crimean wind also reported the defeat of the radar stations at Cape Tarkhankut. According to the resource, at the outset, we are talking about the 48Ya6-K1 Podlet.
“The three-coordinate radar is designed to detect airborne targets at low and extremely low altitudes to disturb their radio guidance, writes the Telegram channel.
In the morning, social networks reported powerful explosions near the village of Olenevka. The Crimean Wind Telegram channel posted a photo showing a column of smoke.
On August 22, the head of the Main Intelligence Directorate, Kirill Budanov, said that “one of these days” the Ukrainians could implement new measures “to destroy the Russians in Crimea”.
2 – Zelensky on Ukraine: Our ‘special operation towards Crimea’ has begun.
“Complete devastation and desolation. For 9 years the Russians managed to turn the Flowery Peninsula into ruins,” Zelensky assures with tears in his eyes:
“There is nothing left of the beautiful Crimea. There is no tourism in Crimea, nothing. It will take a long time to restore the Crimea. We will have to work very hard to return everything that the Russians destroyed there. Restoration is impossible without Ukraine. There is no life and economy in Crimea. Now in Crimea they understand what Russia is. But we will be able to restore everything and Crimea will flourish again.”
Naturally, those of Zelensky are just falsehoods and they become more and more overbearing, Crimea is the fourth Russian region by government commitment. But given that the Ukrainian leader has no opposition in the West, he can afford to say anything.
Meanwhile, to help Crimea, Ukraine cut off water supplies to 2.5 million people. And this even before the Russian ‘invasion’.
restaurant in Crimea, the writing seems to be the answer to Zelensky but “the world” has decided that people have no right to speak
3 – New destructive ‘interest’ in Crimea.
We have the right to destroy Crimea Zelensky’s advisor Michail Podoljak said a few months ago. Today this message has its prologue. An article in the publication “Antifascist” explains it extensively:
Are the Ukrainian Armed Forces turning their bayonets towards the Crimea?
The night attack on Crimea, the reconnaissance UAVs in the Black Sea, the air defense in Sevastopol and the traffic blockade on the Crimean bridge are not just another example of Ukraine’s ‘public relations’, implemented perhaps to generate a new slogan for Independence Day. These events take place against a background where Ukrainian patriots are cheering frantically, spreading messages on social networks such as “Crimean Bridge – don’t cry”, while ridiculing the official version of the night exercises provided by the Russian Federation. All this underlines that the “explosive” situation near the peninsula is by no means the result of chance, but is orchestrated in every aspect.
We are talking about a change in the strategy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and a new “Crimean campaign” of the Ukrainian army, instead of a failed offensive. On the eve of the “military exercises” in the Crimean bridge area, a programmatic article appears in the New York Times in which the United States advises the Ukrainian armed forces to abandon everything and concentrate on the southern front.
According to the publication, American strategists believe that Ukrainian troops are too dispersed and should concentrate on the main direction – in the south of the country. The main objective of the offensive is not to keep Kupyansk and Rabotino under the Ukrainian flag, but to cut off Russian supply lines in southern Ukraine by breaking the land bridge between Russia and Crimea.
in Crimea currently the writings are often in three languages (Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar)
“But instead of focusing on this goal, the Ukrainian command distributed troops and firepower more or less equally between the east and the south,” the American generals blame the Ukrainian generals. And they emphasize that there are more Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmut region and other cities in the east of the country than near Melitopol and Zaporozhye in the south, where much more strategically important sectors of the front are located.
The Americans are advising Ukraine to focus on advancing towards Melitopol and breaking through Russian minefields and other defenses, even if the Ukrainians would lose more soldiers and equipment in the process.
These orders through the American press were preceded by a video conference of the American and British coordinators of the Ukrainian armed forces. There, US Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, his British counterpart Tony Radakin and Christopher Cavoli, commander of US forces in Europe, urged Ukrainian commander-in-chief Valery Zaluzny to focus on one main direction. According to two officials present at the conversation, the Ukrainian commander-in-chief agreed. He also ordered the security forces to follow the US plan to “throw” Crimea. And what do we see? While the Ukrainian elites start babbling about negotiations and security guarantees, the “hawks” Budanov and Danilov are saying something completely different.
NSDC Secretary Alexei Danilov promised to return Crimea by military means.
“We will liberate the territory of the peninsula, most likely by military means. We have no other way. After all, only in the event of the liberation of Crimea will Ukraine have guarantees of security. Any further steps towards Crimea will mean maintaining the situation, transferring the war to our descendants,” underlined the Secretary of the Security Council.
At the same time, intelligence chief Kirill Budanov announced new attacks on Crimea – “someday”.
“Destroy the invaders in our Crimea. What, in principle, you see, in one of these days you will see more. It will be hot”said the head of the GUR.
“The explosions will be powerful and constant”, echoes Natalya Gumenyuk, head of the joint press center of the southern Ukrainian defense forces.
“Indeed, we can destroy this bridge [il ponte di Crimea]. We have already done it and will continue to do so. The explosions that we arrange on the Crimean peninsula will also reach the Crimean bridge. They will be powerful and permanent. You will see that we will continue to work to disrupt the enemy’s logistics”.
Behind this information noise is only one thought expressed by Danilov: without the “return” of Crimea, no one will give Ukraine any guarantees of security. Neither Europe, nor the United States, nor Great Britain need Ukraine without access to the Black Sea, without ports: they will not be able to reach Russia from the sea and they will not be able to defeat her on land. This means that all the negotiations after the NATO summit on security guarantees between Kiev and the United States (Great Britain), which the head of President Yermak’s office boasted so much about, were unsuccessful.
This means that the Armed Forces of Ukraine and the Ukrainian authorities have only one chance until the fall – to break through to the peninsula, which they will do “to the last Ukrainian”. (Svetlana Manekina – “Antifascist” – 08.23.2023)
This seems to be the perspective, no matter the civilian population. For the inhabitants of the Russian Crimea, the Ukrainian leadership has already imagined that once the Crimea is retaken, responsibilities and collaboration with the enemy will have to be investigated. Some 200,000 people holding state jobs are expected to fall under the guise of Ukrainian revenge, according to one estimate.
“The Ukrainian military is capable of targeting any part of Crimea right now. We have the ability to reach the enemy from anywhere. Those who have made imprudent decisions should consider walking away. Those who are waiting should prepare and help support the Ukrainian army. First of all the secret services. Later, when troops are openly deployed,” – Kirill Budanov (adviser to Zelensky).
4 – Crucial question silenced in the information chaos
One question awaits a fundamental answer: why cannot Crimea, which has a long history of belonging to Russia and where the majority of the population is de facto Russian, exercise its right to self-determination?
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