“Recapturing the Crimean peninsula will be difficult, it will require a lot of time, people and materials. We can have no illusions about this, at least not now. The plan is ongoing and must be executed carefully, intelligently and without haste. If we give in to external pressure to try to end this war as soon as possible, we are exposed to circumstances that can be very counterproductive,” unofficial sources in the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense explained to La Razon.

“Little by little, we have shown that Russia is not invincible and that the Crimean peninsula is not impregnable,” they added, as quoted by Rador Radio Romania.

In recent weeks, the Ukrainian military has stepped up its offensive against Russian targets on the peninsula. The latest attack took place yesterday in Dzhankoy, one of the key logistics centers of the Kremlin forces occupying Northern Crimea, where “the warehouse caught fire after the Ukrainian attack,” Ukrainian Pravda reports.

For his part, the head of the region appointed by Moscow, Serhiy Aksyonov, confirmed the incident, but said that it happened due to “remnants of a downed missile that hit the warehouse.” The Ministry of Defense of Russia also confirmed that around 13:00 its air defense “shot down two operational-tactical missiles “Grim-2″ near Dzhankoy.”

On the other hand, the day before yesterday, the Ukrainian special services reported that in August a detachment of paratroopers “rushed” through one of the Black Sea straits to attack a Russian electronic warfare station in Crimea.

“A group of about 20 soldiers from the Brotherhood Battalion were on a mission, traveling 125 (nautical) miles across the sea to reach the peninsula. Our first target was an electronic warfare station so powerful that even a compass couldn’t work 20 miles off the coast,” said Borghese, the battalion commander who coordinated the action.

This previously unknown incursion is in addition to others that Kyiv’s forces have carried out to gradually retake Crimea, some taking advantage of the overflowing Dnieper River after the destruction in June of the Kakhovskaya Dam, which is still in Russian hands, causing ecocide and the flooding of parts of the city of Kherson.

Likewise, the likely destruction of the Russian station would undermine the Kremlin’s ability to intercept drone strikes, track British Storm Shadow missiles and Ukrainian Neptun cruise missiles that recently struck troops in Moscow.

Something, on the other hand, explains the ease with which its missiles and drones managed to exhaust the Russian Black Sea Fleet. On September 13, they reached dry docks at the Sevastopol Naval Base, destroying the Ropucha-type landing craft Minsk and seriously damaging the KILO-class submarine.

The next day, its naval kamikaze drones attacked the Samum hovercraft, the Russian Defense Ministry confirmed. Also that day, a combination of drones and Neptune missiles attacked the Kremlin’s best air defense system S-400 “Triumph” near Yevpatoria, destroying the launcher and radar, according to Ukrainian intelligence.

In addition, on September 20, Ukraine attacked the command post of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation near the village of Verkhnyosadove. On September 21, they carried out a coordinated strike with drones and missiles on the military airfield in Saki, and on the 22nd, they destroyed the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol with Storm Shadow missiles. During the latest operation, called “Krabovka”, Kyiv special operations forces claim that “34 high-ranking Russian officers” were killed.

“It’s all part of a very complex plan that we’re cooking up over a slow fire. We have to go step by step,” sources in the Ministry of Defense explain to LA RAZÓN.

Is a ground invasion possible in the near future? “I cannot comment on such information, I can only say that Crimea is part of Ukraine,” these sources add, recalling that since the beginning of the conflict in 2014, the restoration of the peninsula has been one of the key tasks of the government in Kyiv, without which the conflict will not end . If that day comes, Zelenskyi’s government already has a planned 12-point plan for future reintegration.

The project, which was described in April by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov, involves changing the name of Sevastopol, where the Russian Navy has been based for more than 200 years, to “Object 6”, as he noted. stated for “France 24”.

Among other things, the plan also provides for the application of “tough measures” against Russian collaborators depending on the degree of their assistance to Russia, for which they may be imprisoned, lose the right to participate in elections and be elected.

In addition, the bridge across the Kerch Strait, which connects the Russian mainland, will also be destroyed, and all Russian citizens who settled in Crimea after 2014 will be expelled from the country, and then all real estate transactions carried out during Moscow’s rule will be canceled .

However, given the frenetic activity and slow progress on the eastern and southern fronts, the possibility of Crimea’s return still looks very remote, not least because it is a “red line” for Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he described the US minister in April. State, Anthony Blinken, but also because Ukraine still does not have the necessary weapons for this, for example, American ATACMS long-range missiles.

In addition, Ukraine must first liberate Kherson and Zaporizhzhia provinces, where the battle is far from over. And if Russia were to lose Crimea, the shadow of Putin’s possible use of nuclear weapons would again hang over Europe. La Razon (takeover of Rador Radio Romania.)

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