The 177th day of the war is the main thing. Sucking on the Saky airfield, disrupting the Kakhovsky Bridge repair, and banning entry into Crimea to Ukrainians
Video of the day, according to intelligence representative, the Black Sea Fleet of the aggressor country now occupies a "very defensive position" and is trying not to fall on the line of fire, but trust in the "proud fleet with a long history" undermined. On August 9, a series of explosions occurred in the Crimea at a military airfield in the Saky district, which the occupiers were used for blows to southern Ukraine.
The US media reported that Ukraine was standing, and the Defense Ministry was not confirmed. According to Forbes, eight to 24 units of Russian aircraft were destroyed at the Saki airfields. The Pentagon stated that the aggressor country has lost several fighters, fighter-bombers, reconnaissance planes, as well as ammunition depots. The Armed Forces General Staff, the next day after the explosions at the airfield, reported the destruction of nine Russian aircraft.
On the morning of August 16, a fire at the transformer station was exploding near the village of Azovsky Dzovsky District in the Crimea occupied in Crimea, a fire at the transformer station, and explosions were heard at the Simferopol District. In the evening of August 18, explosions in the Crimea were in the area of the airfield Belbek near Sevastopol - one of the main bases of Russian military aviation on the occupied peninsula.
The Ukrainian military confirmed a new blow to the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on the Ukrainian military confirmation of this information after the occupiers' statements about the repair of the bridge on August 19, informed the spokesman of the head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration Sergey Khlan. “The South Operational Command has officially confirmed that the Armed Forces had destroyed the occupiers' plans to repair and use the Kakhovsky Bridge.
We are waiting for the "discovery" of Antonovsky, which the Russians tell us, "Khlan said. On the eve of a probable blow to the bridge in Nova Kakhovka, Ukrainian journalist Andriy Tsaplienko announced on August 17. Later, information about another rocket firing, which was carried out on the evening of August 18, appeared. It is not known how serious damage has been strategically important to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
The invaders try to restore it after the previous strikes, which were taken on August 10 and 12. After the destruction of the Antonovsky Kakhovsky Bridge, the last opportunity to roll the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation through the Dnieper, so Russian invaders do not stop trying to repair it. In turn, the defense forces state that all crossings in the area are still under their fire control.
The invaders forbade Ukrainians to enter the Crimea Russian invaders closed the possibility of residents of the captured territories of Ukraine to go to the Crimea, the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov reported on the air of Telelorphone. According to him, this is due to recent explosions on the occupied peninsula.
"It should be noted that the filtration in Crimea has increased significantly and no longer allow many men who find information on the Crimea, which are not liked by employees of special services of the Russian Federation," Fedorov said. Also, according to Fedorov, collaborators from Melitopol are not allowed to Crimea.
“We are already aware of not one example, but several examples, when collaborators are deployed at the checkpoint in the Crimea and returned to the temporarily occupied territory of Zaporizhzhya region. Therefore, of course, panic moods, ”he said. In Mariupol, the occupiers began to cut the Illich MMC into a scrap metal, the adviser to the mayor of the city Petro Andryushchenko in Telegram said.
According to him, the smoke, which has risen above it today, is evidenced by the beginning of the planting of the plant. "In fact, in the cleaned and exchanged territory began to cut the plant on scrap," he wrote. Andryushchenko noted that the occupiers continue to feed the Mariupols with a false hope for the restoration of the plant. The Russian military used the inhabitants of Mariupol to mine the Illich metallurgical plant. As a result, at least ten people were killed. The Russians reported on 1.