'Kyiv knows how valuable Crimea is to Putin, but it also knows the Russian military is stretched very thin at the moment,' professor Hilary Appel said.
Awas launched Thursday morning on the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, according to a Telegram post by the city's governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, although he did not explicitly blame Ukraine for the attack.
He wrote that two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles were"shot down over the sea" and that"our defense forces continue to repel the attack." He added that"several" other UAVs were shot down in the same airspace. Aside from road closures and a temporary pause in ferry services, he said that"everything is calm in the city."
Telegram channel Crimean Wind reported that"at about 5 a.m., several explosions were heard over the areas where Russian military units are located." The strongest explosion occurred at about 6:15 a.m. A Ukrainian mortar team prepares to fire on a Russian position on February 16, 2023, in Bakhmut, Ukraine. Ukrainian forces have allegedly attacked Russians in Crimea, potentially viewed by the Kremlin as crossing a"red line."Krym.Realii reported that at the time of the explosions"a rocket launch was heard and the subsequent loud explosion, from which the glass in the windows trembled.
Russian military authorities and the Russian Federation have not commented on the attacks allegedly perpetrated by Ukraine, the outlet added.
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