Ukraine’s Defense Ministry issued a stark warning to Russian troops in Crimea on Wednesday, saying the Ukrainian military was preparing new attacks on the occupiers’ bases on the peninsula, annexed by the Kremlin in 2014.

• “The weather forecast indicates that it will be very hot in Crimea.
• It’s time for the Russian occupiers to go to the bathhouse. It takes a lot of strength to swim to Sochi or Yeisk.
• However, the Guinness Book of Records may include a new record for the longest open water swim,” the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine said on Twitter.

This comes as Ukrainian army chief General Valery Zaluzhnyi on Wednesday claimed responsibility for a series of strikes on Russian air bases in the annexed Crimean peninsula, including one that caused mass destruction at the Saka military base last year. moon.

In an article published in the state news agency Ukrinform, the commander of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, stated that the strikes were carried out by shells or rockets, without elaborating. According to him, ten combat aircraft were destroyed.

Ukraine has so far only hinted at its involvement.

This is in the context of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy recently telling members of his team to stop sharing information about Ukraine’s plans for Russia.

A series of explosions that rocked Russian military bases in Crimea, annexed by Russia in 2014, were planned by Ukraine, according to an internally leaked Kiev government report obtained by CNN through a Ukrainian official.

According to satellite images, on August 9, its air base in Saki in southwestern Crimea, near the naval headquarters in Sevastopol, was destroyed by a series of explosions that destroyed eight combat aircraft.