Aftermath of explosions at Russian military airbase in Novofedorivka, Crimea on August 9, via Reuters
Originally published by ZeroHedge
Ukrainian government officials are teasing the likelihood of more strikes and ‘sabotage operations’ inside Russian controlled Crimea, after having cheered on at least two recent large explosions at military sites.
Kiev officials, including President Volodymyr Zelensky himself, are reportedly warning that all civilians should “stay away from potential targets” in Crimea. This follows the Kremlin on Tuesday admitting for the first time that the recent explosions were the “result of sabotage”.
Following the latest incident, the Russia’s defense ministry said, “On the morning of Aug. 16, as a result of an act of sabotage, a military storage facility near the village of Dzhankoi was damaged.”
This is the clearest indication yet that in addition to the Dzhankoi munitions depot blast, the prior Aug.9 massive explosion at Russia’s Saky airbase, some 200km deep inside, was also a Ukrainian attack – as some Ukrainian officials had already leaked to US newspapers.
The Saky airbase incident had also set off discussion over whether US-supplied HIMARS rockets could reach that far. If indeed there were foreign weapons systems behind it, it could set the US and Russia on a dangerous path of escalation and collision as the proxy war could fast develop into direct confrontation between superpowers in Ukraine.
The Kremlin has warned even of nuclear confrontation among superpowers if the war is to spiral outside of Ukraine’s borders. But while Russia sees Crimea as its own, going back to a popular referendum among the pro-Russian population in 2014, both Kiev and the West view Crimea as still part of Ukraine’s sovereign territory which was illegally “annexed”.
The Guardian publishes on its front page a straight-out Ukrainian government press release urging the West to give it even more weapons, written up by the paper’s resident MI6 stenographer Luke Harding.
Oh, and it would like you to pay for this service… pic.twitter.com/bXcabDlyCo
— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) August 17, 2022
According to fresh reporting in The Guardian, these Crimea sabotage events are part of a new broader strategy of creating “chaos” for Russian forces:
Ukraine is engaged in a counteroffensive aimed at creating “chaos within Russian forces” by striking at the invaders’ supply lines deep into occupied territories, according to a key adviser to the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Mykhailo Podolyak told the Guardian there could be more attacks in the “next two or three months” similar to Tuesday’s mysterious strikes on a railway junction and an airbase in Crimea, as well as last week’s hit on Russian warplanes at the peninsula’s Saky aerodrome.
Russia said a fire on Tuesday had set off explosions at a munitions depot in the Dzhankoi district of Crimea – an incident that Podolyak said was a reminder that “Crimea occupied by Russians is about warehouse explosions and high risk of death for invaders and thieves”.
According to the satellite images there were 23 planes located at Saky military airbase in Crimea. 12 Sukhoi Su-24, 10 Sukhoi Su-30CM and 1 Ilyushin Il-76. Still to be confirmed.pic.twitter.com/Ir8mEsZtje
— Altavista 🇪🇺🇺🇦 (@na_intel) August 9, 2022
Another standoff which threatens to escalate into international confrontation is ongoing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Ukrainian officials have said that some 500 Russian troops are occupying it, which is Europe’s largest…
Russian-installed officials have accused Ukrainian forces of shelling the city of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant is located, according to Interfax news agency, while Ukraine blamed Russia for shelling the city of Nikopol, across the Dnieper river.
Over recent days, Zelensky has said his forces will target any Russian forces at the plant. “Every Russian soldier who either shoots at the plant, or shoots using the plant as cover, must understand that he becomes a special target for our intelligence agents, for our special services, for our army,” Zelenskiy said in a weekend address.
The Ukrainian president’s own recent words suggest that Russia’s accusations that it is the Ukrainian side shelling the nuclear plant are accurate. However, the West has been charging Russian forces with shelling the plant (which begs the question of why Russian forces occupying said plant would be shelling themselves).
Benjamin Nutinyourmouth agrees
𝗠𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 $𝟮𝟲𝗸 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗲𝗮𝘀𝘆 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆. 𝗜 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 $𝟭𝟴𝟲𝟯𝟱 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 (𝗻𝗮𝘂-𝟯𝟬) 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗲𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘆 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴.
𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄=====>>> 𝗯𝘂𝘇𝘇𝗽𝗮𝘆𝟭.𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.𝗰𝗼𝗺
and why is this terrorist still not 6 feet under?
Seems Putin can’t do Sh!t!
It’s obvious that Crimea is being attacked. The red line was crossed. Time to destroy those command centres as promised.
Only Crimea? What about Belgorod and other places in Russia? It’s assymetrical warfare we’re talking about!
Ukraine threatening Crimea using sabotage attacks (with the UK driving this) demonstrates Ukrainian forces cant engage in any frontal attacks. Ukraine has not achieved any territorial gains or phushed Russian forces from any large and key Russian held territory which is what NATO is expecting of the Ukraine in the next 3 months to show it will continue to support it with weapons. Russia will hold on, but it must be careful now one two fronts. Crimea and the Nuclear plant (which they want to create an exclusion zone of 30 kms and impose foreign observers (naturally unacceptable for Russia). The Ukrainians are growing bolder not out of confidence I believe, but the understanding that they must achieve some notable territorial victories now not just demonstrate trench warfare were they can defend positions and engage Russian attacks even when they inflict Russian losses (which also comes with man power losses for them). Russia isn’t in a hurry, it is using a small army of 200,000 men (mainly the DPR on the front lines with artillery fire and support from the Russian force’s to maintain smaller casualties in a grinding slow war. It controls logistics routes all over eastern Ukraine (logistics wins wars) has supreme air power, endless arms supplies and is winning the war through shear attrition wearing down the Ukrainians. Winter is coming and that will be bad for the Ukrainians as all the Western equipment needs regular servicing and just breakdowns i.e the long range heavy artillery like the M777 (which is made for symetric war aka wars the US wages against men on camels). Russia has got this but it must endure the two challenges in Crimea and Zaporizhzhia.
US and EU froze further deliveries of weapons, so now the comedian only has his last weapon: terrorism.
Yes no notable weapons since June ZERO. Most of the NATO alliance is not able to provide the reliable Soviet era weapons now as they have in the last few months. It is also important to mention most of the weapons don’t end up with the Ukrainians, lots are simply destroyed by Russian long range missiles and what high tech western gear gets to the battle field within weeks just breaks. The javelin anti-tank missile for example fail to fire after the first and the trusty t-72s actually are taking two or three hits.
A vido of a former liberal anti-russian women after she visited the real https://youtu.be/0OysQ7yQl_o
It is way beyond time that Russia destroys Zelensky and Kiev with huge bombs and missiles, preferably nukes. Shut his mouth forever please Mr. Putin.
this is a puppet only, replaceable, no the problem. The problem is the MeinSteamMedia
If Kiev and US jointly conduct more strikes on Crimea, Russia can give a crippling response by organising a big military drill!
Must not rule out some sort of advanced American weapon. Like a small tungsten rod from space hitting these targets. They move so fast you cant see them like a small meteorite. May only need to be a couple of feet long moving at thousands of miles an hour. They will leave craters like those on the airfield at Saky.
Interesting,didn’t even know there was such a weapon,what i do believe is that American/Nato are already on the ground those weapon systems don’t operate or maintain themselves.
I would hope that Russia could detect HIMARS missiles if they were fired from such a distance, if not, start negotiating peace. I guess when Russia is ready to start pushing the Ukranian forces out of range, they will feel safer.
If there is one person who need to be warned from ever visiting Crimea, it is surely the little clown from Kiev. I believe that if this dirty rat ever were to go there and was recognized, he would surely receive the Mussolini treatment and be left dangling from a window or a tree like the unclean animal he is. The Russians will never forgive this nasty piece of shit. They are holding him personally responsible for all their dead and wounded family members and friends. When the war is over, the world will not be big enough for him to hide his sorry little ass.
Imagine claiming responsibility for ISIS sabotage attacks.
Ukraine has zero credibility.
Target Kiyv , Start with the hospitals, schoolyards and nurseries. If you gonna get blamed as the devil, be the real devil. bomb them into dust, make their children grow up in basements. kill them at the market, kill them on the toilet, kill them above ground. enough pussyfooting around Destroy the common memory of a “Ukraine”
KEEP TALKING LITTLE MAN