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According to the report, when Russia annexed Ukrainian Crimea in 2014, Putin populated it with 100,000 ethnic Russians, completed the Kerch Bridge in 2018, linking Russia to Crimea, and placed it all under the protection of the Black Sea Fleet and the Russian army. Until Putin attempted to take the rest of Ukraine in 2022, this annexation seemed secure.
The report also stated that Ukraine has avoided costly, tactical assaults by land or sea and concentrated its early efforts on depleting Russian air defences. Ukrainian drone and missile technology systematically destroyed Russia’s layered air defences, removing radar, missile launchers, and command centres. At the same time, marine drones sank one third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, forcing them to flee Sevastopol and withdraw to Novorossiysk on the Russian mainland. Many of the ships sunk were landing craft capable of providing stores and military ordinance by sea, the expert added.
In addition to the report, this month, the Gvardeyskoye fuel depot and distribution centre for the whole of Crimea was destroyed by drones. Gvardeyskoye, situated in the centre of the peninsula, is the main distribution hub for domestic, business, and military requirements. Then Feodosia Oil terminal, the only seaborne route of energy supply to Crimea, was struck and put out of action. The effects were immediate. Although Crimea had struggled through the past three years, the effects of Ukrainian strikes were directed only at military targets. The civilian population, which is predominantly of imported ethnic Russians, was prepared to tolerate a situation they regarded as ‘difficult.’ Now it is more than difficult and getting worse by the day.
The report also stated that Ukraine has avoided costly, tactical assaults by land or sea and concentrated its early efforts on depleting Russian air defences. Ukrainian drone and missile technology systematically destroyed Russia’s layered air defences, removing radar, missile launchers, and command centres. At the same time, marine drones sank one third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, forcing them to flee Sevastopol and withdraw to Novorossiysk on the Russian mainland. Many of the ships sunk were landing craft capable of providing stores and military ordinance by sea, the expert added.
In addition to the report, this month, the Gvardeyskoye fuel depot and distribution centre for the whole of Crimea was destroyed by drones. Gvardeyskoye, situated in the centre of the peninsula, is the main distribution hub for domestic, business, and military requirements. Then Feodosia Oil terminal, the only seaborne route of energy supply to Crimea, was struck and put out of action. The effects were immediate. Although Crimea had struggled through the past three years, the effects of Ukrainian strikes were directed only at military targets. The civilian population, which is predominantly of imported ethnic Russians, was prepared to tolerate a situation they regarded as ‘difficult.’ Now it is more than difficult and getting worse by the day.