According to the Ukrainian army, the spectacular drone attack on Russian-annexed Crimea on Saturday was just the beginning. He had served in preparation for the planned counter-offensive. “The infiltration of enemy logistics is a preparatory element for the vigorous active actions of our armed forces, which we have been talking about for a long time,” it said on Sunday.
“This work prepares for the large-scale offensive that everyone has been waiting for,” said the Ukrainian Army’s Southern Command. As a result of the drone attack, a large Russian fuel depot in the port city of Sevastopol caught fire. According to Russian information, no deaths or injuries were reported and civilian objects were not damaged.
Ukraine claims to have destroyed 10 oil tanks in Crimea
However, according to Ukrainian military intelligence, ten oil tanks were destroyed. Specifically, Kiev did not claim responsibility for the attack, but Ukraine’s military intelligence said such explosions would continue.
When will the counteroffensive start?
Russia has been openly at war with its neighbor for more than a year and currently occupies about 20 percent of Ukraine’s territory, including the Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, which was annexed in 2014. Internationally, people have been eagerly awaiting an announced major Ukrainian offensive for weeks. The attacked country also wants to take back the occupied territories with the help of Western weapons.
Castling again in the Russian Ministry of Defense
Meanwhile, Russia has again replaced one of its deputy defense ministers. Colonel General Alexei Kusmenkow is now responsible for the army’s material and technical supplies, the ministry announced on Sunday. He was previously Deputy Director of the National Guard. Kuzmenkov succeeds Mikhail Mizintsev, who took over the position last September.
Russian bloggers had already reported on Mizintsev’s resignation last week, citing power struggles within the Russian army as one of the reasons. In total, the Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, has twelve deputies.
Quarrels between the army and the head of the infamous Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, have been going on for months. He accuses the Moscow leadership of having problems supplying his fighters with ammunition – and has recently even threatened to withdraw them from the hotly contested Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.
“A thousand corpses every day”: Wagner boss rows back
However, the eloquent mercenary boss now had to grow back: “Every day we have piles of thousands of corpses that we put in the coffin and send home,” he lamented on Saturday. The losses are five times what is necessary due to the lack of artillery ammunition. In the meantime, he has nuanced his statements in an audio message: Wagner had moved “another 100 to 150 meters” in Bachmut in the course of Saturday. Daily losses were “only” close to 100 men.
Source: Krone
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