Moscow had blamed “sabotage” for the bombings, such as the one that destroyed ten planes at Saki airport
The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeri Zaluzni, admitted on Tuesday what was an open secret: that it was Kiev forces that carried out a series of attacks on Russian positions in the Crimean peninsula throughout August. In one of them, which took place on the 9th, a Russian soldier was killed and a dozen aircraft were destroyed at Saki Air Force Base. Until now, the government led by Volodymyr Zelensky had not openly declared responsibility for the attacks, for which Moscow had blamed “saboteurs”.
Zaluzni claimed responsibility for the bombing in an article published in the state news agency ‘Ukrinform’. In the text, he points out that “there is no reason to believe” that the war will end in 2022. For the Commander-in-Chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, “the center of gravity of the war for Russia lies in its remote nature for the majority of Russians”. (…) Our job is to make the experience a little more difficult and tangible for the Russians».
The bombing of Crimea was a major achievement for Ukrainian troops. On the one hand, for the first time they reached Russian territory with a civilian presence – there were many tourists who enjoyed the summer holidays. On the other hand, it marked a change in the paradigm of the war, as it was the first time Kiev set targets in the back of Russian forces, as well as supply infrastructure.
On the other hand, Ukraine on Tuesday called for a UN blue helmet mission at the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, accusing Kiev and Moscow of bombing each other. It did so just one day after the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN’s nuclear agency, called for a “safety zone” around the plant in its 52-page report prepared after its visit to the facilities last week. .
“Deploying the peacekeeping contingent and removing the Russian military could be one of the means to create the security zone at the Zaporizhia plant,” said Petro Kotin, head of Ukraine’s nuclear operator Energoatom.
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin denied that his army had deployed military equipment at the nuclear power plant, as the IAEA report noted. Numerous videos broadcast on social networks also show the presence of military trucks with a ‘Z’ painted on them, a symbol of support for the Russian invasion.
Source: La Verdad
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