After an attack, on August 9, on a military aerodrome, violent explosions shook a Russian base on Tuesday. President Volodymyr Zelensky made the “liberation” of the region annexed by Moscow in 2014 an objective.
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This time, it is a certainty: the Crimean Peninsula, annexed by Moscow in 2014 and remained away from the fighting since the launch of the Russian offensive in Ukraine, on February 24, is in the viewfinder of kyiv’s army. After a first attack on August 9 on the Saky military aerodrome, located west of the peninsula, violent explosions shook, Tuesday, August 16, a Russian base installed in the Djankoi district, northeast of the Region of force attached to the Russian Federation eight years ago.
According to images broadcast on social networks, an important depot of ammunition exploded early in the morning in the village of Maïskoïe, causing damage over several hundred meters around. According to Sergei Axionov, the governor of the “Republic of Crimea”, the attack made two wounded and forced the authorities to evacuate more than 3,000 inhabitants. The railway line serving the peninsula from Russia, located nearby, has also been damaged and passenger traffic, like goods, interrupted.
While they had denied any Ukrainian attack on the Saky air base, ensuring that it was an accidental fire, the Russians awarded the explosion of Djankoi’s ammunition deposit to “an act of Sabotage “, without giving more details. “The necessary measures are taken to eliminate the consequences of sabotage,” said the Russian Defense Ministry, referring to the railway tracks and damaged electrical installations. For his part, kyiv confirmed the explosion but did not claim the operation.
Theoretically, the sites targeted in Crimea for ten days are out of reach of the Ukrainian army. The Saky air base as the Djankoi deposit are located more than 200 kilometers from the front. Far too far for multiple Himars rocket launchers delivered by the United States, which have been provided with projectiles not going beyond 80 kilometers. Washington reaffirmed that it had not given Ukraine atacms ballistic missiles, with a theoretical range of 300 kilometers, to avoid any risk of climbing with Moscow.
“Crimea, A very important logistics node for the Russians “
If attack hypotheses by infiltrated drones or special forces do not attract experts, that of Ukrainian manufacturing missiles “boosted” by allied countries is favored by part of the military community. Some evoke in particular the existence of “two or three launchers” produced by Yuzhnoye Design Office, a Ukrainian industrialist from aerospace, who would be able to draw ballistic missiles equipped with “friends” guidance systems.
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