As of: February 7, 2024, 5:10 a.m
By: Patrick Mayer
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Vladimir Putin must be increasingly worried about Crimea, which he had occupied in 2014.
The Ukrainians announce the next strike against the Black Sea Fleet.
Crimea - Russian ruler Vladimir Putin's imperialism is not only a concern in Ukraine.
Following the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark, Poland has now warned of a military conflict between Moscow and the NATO defense alliance.
Ukraine war: Kiev succeeds in its next blow against Russia in the Black Sea
Meanwhile, while the Ukrainian army on the eastern front is struggling on land with a lack of ammunition, one of Putin's prestige projects on the water is at risk: the Crimean peninsula.
Because: The Ukrainians announced the next strike against Russia's Black Sea Fleet this Tuesday (February 6th).
According to the Defense Ministry from Kiev, elite soldiers stormed an drilling platform near Crimea and destroyed radar equipment and signal antennas on it.
The drilling platform was previously occupied by Russian troops, but appeared abandoned in the video published by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense.
Black Sea: Ukrainian elite soldiers storm drilling platform
There are currently many indications that the Russian Black Sea Fleet has fallen heavily on the defensive.
The Ukrainian soldiers documented a sign from the oil rig to prove that they had succeeded in their next military coup.
As a video shared on X (formerly Twitter) shows, they crossed the sea at night on motorized inflatable boats.
A graphic map that the online portal The New Voice of Ukraine (NV)
shared on its social media channels
illustrates how much pressure the Kremlin's troops are under here .
Accordingly, 22 Russian warships would have been sunk or damaged in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov by December 2023, while the Ukrainians can now hope for even more F-16 fighter jets from NATO countries.
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Russian Black Sea Fleet: “Moskva” is considered the most prominent loss
The most prominent example among the losses of Moscow's Black Sea Fleet: On April 14, 2022, the Ukrainian armed forces sank the Russian flagship “Moskva” with anti-ship missiles.
According to Ukrainian information, on the night of February 1st the Russian corvette “Ivanovets” followed, destroyed by effective surface drones.
Would be 23 ships destroyed or damaged.
Striking: According to British estimates, the sinking of the “Ivanovets” will significantly weaken the Black Sea Fleet in the future.
The strike affected command and control capabilities and forced the fleet leadership to rethink its maneuvers west of the peninsula, which has been annexed since 2014, the British Ministry of Defense said on February 6.
Heavy pressure: The Russian army in Crimea, here recruits in Sevastopol.
© IMAGO/Sergei Malgavko
Russian Black Sea Fleet: Ukrainians attack Crimean military airfield
The missile ship is important for exchanging data with other ships, helicopters and long-range patrol aircraft, the British wrote at
The footage released by the Ukrainians almost certainly indicated that the ship had sunk, Britain said.
Also on February 1st, Ukrainian media and military bloggers reported a serious air strike against the Russian military air base at Belbek in Crimea.
Three Ukrainian Sukhoi Su-24M fighter bombers fired at least six British Storm Shadows and/or French Scalp cruise missiles at targets at the air base.
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