A video appeared on social media showing a Ukrainian flag flying near one of the towns in Crimea, The Guardian reports.

Ukrainian flag (general image)Photo: Ingus Kruklitis / Alamy / Profimedia Images

According to information on social networks, the flag was supposed to be raised near the village of Khrushivka in the south of Crimea near Feodosia.

“Even after 9 years of Russian military occupation, it seems some Crimeans are still willing to take risks to demonstrate their patriotism,” says journalist Ewan MacDonald, co-author of the BBC and New Voice of Ukraine magazine.

The video recording appeared just a day after the broadcasts of several Russian radio stations in Crimea were again hijacked by Ukrainian pirates and their supporters from other countries, who broadcast messages about the evacuation of the peninsula.

“There is a message about the interception of the signal of this or that radio station. Information is spreading about evacuation from the peninsula with the help of ferry crossings and other nonsense,” Sevastopol Governor Mykhailo Razvozhaev said on Thursday.

He emphasized that if such a decision is made, the information will be broadcast on all radio stations simultaneously.

Russia provoked a new attack on Ukraine in Crimea

“The streams of several radio stations were interrupted in Crimea. The transmitters are turned off, the reasons for the hacking have been eliminated,” said Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea.

Razvozhaev also reported that the hijacking of radio channels was connected to the drone attack that took place on the port of Sevastopol on Wednesday morning.

Russian mass media write that Sevastopol was attacked by naval drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but the Black Sea Fleet of Russia repelled the attack.

The Russian-backed administration of Sevastopol later said it had suspended ferry services.

On Monday night, another Ukrainian attack took place in Crimea, a batch of Kalibr cruise missiles was destroyed.

The attack, launched just ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Russia, angered Moscow, which on Wednesday resumed a massive attack on Ukrainian cities.

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