Ukraine considers the Crimean bridge as a legitimate military objective.
In the next two to three months, there may be more explosions at the military facilities of the occupiers in Crimea.
This was stated in an interview with The Guardian by the adviser to the head of the OP Mykhailo Podolyak.
According to Podoliak, the fire at the ammunition warehouse of the Russian troops in the Dzhankoy district served as a reminder that “Crimea, occupied by the russians, is an explosion of warehouses and a high risk of death of invaders and thieves.”
The publication notes that Ukraine has not taken responsibility for the strikes. However, these remarks can also be interpreted as an admission that Ukraine is trying to accumulate the number of people and military equipment necessary to carry out a full-fledged counteroffensive in the south of the country.
Podoliak asked for “another 50, 60, 80” MSDS in addition to the existing arsenal.
An aide to the OP chief admitted that the attack on the air base in Novofedorivka last week could have been the work of partisans, but rejected any suggestion that it could have been an accident, as Moscow said immediately afterwards.
“Of course, I agree with the Ministry of Defense of russia, which predicts more such incidents in the next two to three months. I think we could see more such cases”, – said Podolyak.
He also made it clear that Ukraine considers the Crimean bridge, which connects the occupied peninsula with the russian mainland, as a legitimate military objective. “This is illegal construction and the main route for supplying the russian army in Crimea. Such facilities must be destroyed”, – he said.
How the explosions will affect the position of the Russian army on the mainland of Ukraine
According to analysts from the American Institute for the Study of War, yesterday’s explosions near Dzhankoy seriously damaged russian logistics. Enemy groups in the south of Zaporizhzhia and the west of Kherson regions came under the “blow”.
At the same time, the experts have no data that the strikes were carried out with Western weapons supplied to the Armed Forces. But it is likely that the attacks on russian military facilities in the Crimea are consistent with the counteroffensive actions of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Kherson direction.
New explosions in Crimea: what is known
On August 16, an ammunition detonation occurred in a military unit in the village of Azovske, Dzhankoy district of Crimea, in an ammunition warehouse.
The head of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, Refat Chubarov, informed that the occupiers surrounded the zone within a radius of 5 kilometers from the epicenter of the explosions and evacuated the civilian population.
The russian federation said that there was an “ignition” in the military unit at the ammunition storage site. And later the russian side declared sabotage.
On August 9, a series of explosions rang out in Crimea, near the settlement of Novofedorivka, and a fire broke out on the territory of the Saki airfield. As a result of the explosions, at least 9 aircraft were destroyed.
