Ukrainian forces raided Crimea and “inflicted fire on the Moscow occupiers,” according to Ukrainian officials, in a campaign to build military pressure on Russia’s forces in the vital occupied peninsula.
"There was a battle with the Russian occupiers; many were killed and wounded among the invaders' personnel,” Ukrainian Defense Intelligence spokesman Andriy Yusov told a Ukrainian outlet. “Unfortunately, there are losses among Ukrainian defenders too, though these are still not as many as among the Russians.”Yusov offered that statement after his colleagues released a video that purports to show Ukrainian special forces members riding jet skis to the Crimean coastline.
“Ukraine continues to push its own offensive scenario step by step and impose its will on the battlefield,” Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak wrote Wednesday on social media. “All of this is often happening contrary to military doctrine, as the Ukrainian military is advancing in smaller numbers and is facing a much better supplied and equipped enemy.”
The report of the raid dovetailed with another Ukrainian announcement of preparations for a dozen cargo shipments to leave from its Black Sea ports, in defiance of a Russian blockade imposed at the beginning of the full-scale campaign to overthrow the Ukrainian government.
“Crimea and the Black Sea near Crimea are now the most important area where a turning point in the war may take place,” Ukrainian Internal Affairs Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko wrote on social media on Wednesday. “Crimea is not only a logistics center, but also the most important military base of the Russian operation in Ukraine, and that is why there are and will be landmark events there, which may determine the final outcome of the war.
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