“Ukraine has intensified its long-range drone campaign against occupied Crimea in recent weeks, conducting a coordinated series of strikes aimed at isolating the peninsula from Russian military logistics while systematically degrading its military infrastructure.” ~ @kyivindependent_official 🇺🇦👏💙💛🙏🇺🇦
#Repost @kyivindependent_official with @use.repost_ . . . Ukraine’s increasingly frequent drone strikes on occupied Crimea have been made possible by a “new technological stage of the war,” Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said on July 1, adding Moscow was finding it increasingly difficult to “resolve one crisis after another.”
Ukraine has intensified its long-range drone campaign against occupied Crimea in recent weeks, conducting a coordinated series of strikes aimed at isolating the peninsula from Russian military logistics while systematically degrading its military infrastructure.
“I think this is connected with a new technological stage of the war and with the ability of Ukrainian drones to use technologies that allow us to carry out these kinds of operations,” Fedorov said during a press briefing with Swedish Defense Minister Pal Jonson in Kyiv on July 1.
“Crimea has essentially turned into a military base for the Russians, allowing them to continue occupying the south of our country and transfer forces to the east. Therefore, from both a military and logistical perspective, it is an important target for us.”
Fedorov said Ukraine would continue expanding its strike capabilities.
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