Recently, the Crimean issue has become more and more relevant. Everything seems to indicate that Ukraine is beginning to fulfill its promises and is taking back the Crimean Peninsula. Just yesterday, in the context of Crimea, two significant things happened — the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine’s appeal to citizens of both Ukraine and Russia, and eight explosions in the area of Cape Fiolent. Let’s look at what happened in details.
Yesterday, on September 1, the Chief Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine made an official appeal to the Crimeans on its Facebook. In this appeal, the Ukrainian Directorate asks to indicate (using the telephone numbers in the post, as well as other information channel):
— the exact location of the deployment and addresses of the Russian troops (with reference to the coordinates),
— control points of the Russian troops (with reference to coordinates),
— locations and routes of movement of military equipment,
— precise data of local employees who sided with the Russian army (address of residence and location with reference to coordinates, names and surnames, positions and place of work),
— the same, as stated above, but in relation to supporters of the Russian government.
This appeal indicates that Ukraine (at the official level) confirms that it has begun working on the issue of returning Crimea back to itself. But this appeal in itself is nothing if it were not accompanied by numerous explosions on the same day in the Crimean Balaklava, as well as in the area of Cape Fiolent. Here we got to the second, no less important event that took place in the Crimea. According to eyewitnesses, they heard sounds from rockets over Balaklava at 4 o’clock in the morning yesterday. Local residents claim, “Something fell to the ground with a whistle” on Fiolent, as a result of which houses trembled and planes took off into the sky.
The Russian Federation has commented on this case as follows: “there was an attempt to launch the P-800 Onyx missile and it exploded over the city where it was launched.” That is, the Russian side denies the nature of the origin of the explosions, but then there would be no need to raise their own aircraft into the sky. In addition, according to local residents, such a rocket exploded there eight times, took off and fell eight times. Locals counted up to eight explosions near Cape Fiolent.
The Ukrainian side has declined official comments, but stated that it knew that there were military facilities and an air defense system in these areas, including Yevpatoria. In addition, at present, a partisan movement continues its activities in the territory of Crimea, which helps the Armed Forces of Ukraine and intelligence in collecting data and carries out sabotage activities. The Kyrymly liberation movement and the Mejlis has also become more active, and is already searching for supporters of the Russian regime in Crimea.
It turns out that, firstly, these two events are most likely directly related to each other, and secondly, Ukraine goes after Crimea and returns its own back. Given Russia’s inappropriate comments about the explosions and their origin, they either shoot down a drone, or they themselves blow up their own rocket, or the air defense system has worked, the Russian Federation unsuccessfully is trying in every possible way to contain the panic among the civilian population of Crimea.