As of: February 7, 2024, 9:15 a.m
By: Patrick Mayer
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Ukrainian elite soldiers apparently achieved a spectacular success in the Black Sea.
The Russian occupation of Crimea is increasingly in danger.
Crimea - Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin spreads terror.
Not just in Ukraine.
After Norway, Sweden and Finland, Denmark and Poland have now also warned against a military confrontation between Russia and the NATO defense alliance.
Black Sea: Ukrainian elite soldiers storm drilling platform
However, while the Moscow ruler's troops bring a lot of suffering to the treacherously invaded neighboring country, one of Putin's absolute prestige projects is increasingly in danger: Crimea.
Because: This Tuesday (February 6th) Kiev announced the next spectacular blow against the Russian Black Sea Fleet in the Ukraine war.
Specifically: According to the Defense Ministry, elite Ukrainian soldiers stormed an drilling platform in the Black Sea not far from Crimea and destroyed or captured radar equipment and signal antennas for the use of drones.
The drilling platform was previously occupied by Russian troops, but was apparently evacuated by them.
Russian losses in the Black Sea: Fleet in Crimea is under pressure
Because Russia now only acts defensively west of Crimea?
There are many indications of this at the beginning of February 2024.
To prove their renewed military success, the soldiers filmed the sign on the oil rig.
According to the video, they had used inflatable boats to reach the platform in the Black Sea under the cover of the dark night.
Moscow's troops have been under immense pressure in the water for weeks.
This was recently documented in a map that the Ukrainian online portal
The New Voice of Ukraine (NV)
published on its social media channels.
Accordingly, between February 2022 and December 2023, 22 Russian warships were either sunk or at least seriously damaged in the Black Sea and the adjacent Sea of Azov.
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Russian Black Sea Fleet: 23 Moscow ships destroyed or damaged
Among other things, Ukraine sank the Russian flagship “Moskva” not far from the prestigious Snake Island on April 14, 2022, using anti-ship missiles.
The most recent example: On the night of February 1st, the Ukrainian armed forces said they also sank the Russian corvette “Ivanovets” using surface drones.
That would make 23 destroyed or damaged Russian warships.
What's more: According to British estimates, the sinking of the missile ship “Ivanovets” at the beginning of February will significantly weaken the Black Sea Fleet.
The strike affected command and control capabilities and forced the fleet command to rethink its maneuvers west of the peninsula, which has been annexed since 2014, the British Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday (February 6).
Crimea |
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Location: |
Peninsula of southern Ukraine between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov |
Length: |
200km |
Width: |
325km |
Area: |
26,844 km² |
biggest cities: |
Simferopol, Sevastopol, Yevpatoriya, Feodosiya, Kerch |
Crimean peninsula: Ukraine succeeds in air strike on Belbek military airfield
The rocket ship is important for exchanging data with other ships, helicopters and long-range patrol aircraft, the British wrote on the X platform (formerly Twitter).
The footage released by the Ukrainians almost certainly indicated that the ship had sunk, London said.
That's not all: Also on February 1st, media from Kiev, Ukrainian military bloggers and Interior Ministry advisor Anton Gerashchenko reported a serious air attack on the Russian aviation squadron at the Belbek military airfield near Sevastopol.
Three Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-24M fighter bombers fired at least six British Storm Shadows and/or French Scalp cruise missiles (technically identical) at targets at the Belbek air base on January 31st.
Are the defeats in Ukraine stressing him out?
Kremlin autocrat Vladimir Putin appeared drawn in photos from February 5th.
© IMAGO/Alexander Kazakov
Against Vladimir Putin: Ukraine targets Russian Crimean troops
The head of the US foreign intelligence agency CIA, William Joseph Burns, recently formally asked Ukraine to target Crimea.
The challenge for Ukraine, the 67-year-old CIA director wrote in an op-ed for
Foreign Affairs
, would be "to break through Putin's arrogance and demonstrate the high cost to Russia of the ongoing conflict, not just through progress on the front lines, but also through deeper attacks behind it and steady gains in the Black Sea.”
The Ukrainian troops are obviously complying with this request.
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