> The system also opens the possibility of using them to ambush Russian aircraft as they take-off or land on Crimean air bases. The USVs can sit off the Crimean coast and pick off the aircraft as they approach unawares. There is at least circumstantial evidence to suggest that this may have already been done.
80 years ago at the orders of #Stalin the #Crimean Tatars -around 220 thousand of them,- were deported to Central Asia. Nearly half of them died en route or in the first few years of their forced exile.
How #water is used as a weapon of war following #Russia ’s invasion of #Ukraine . An irrigation system, once created at #Stalin ’s order as a project of grand #Soviet social engineering, is now running dry. We dig into the history of the #Crimean water dispute - the surprising twists and turns and the narratives constructed by both Russia and Ukraine, on #TheGlobalJigsaw:
"All is ready. We can destroy the #Crimean Bridge anytime we want. But we will do it when we need to!" - the leader of the Crimean #Tatar people, Mustafa #Dzhemilev.
Dzhemilev said in his interview that he would be one of the first to go to liberate #Crimea together with Rustem #Umerov. He also called on the remaining Crimean Tatars in the occupied territory to resist by all possible means. Everyone must contribute to the fight against the occupiers.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 The #Crimean Peninsula has been hit by an attack targeting its #internet providers, a proxy 'official' from Crimea’s Russian-backed administration said Friday.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 #Crimean Telegram channels report on explosions in the area of Cape Fiolent in occupied #Sevastopol on Sunday evening, intelligence says it was a joint operation of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence and the #Ukrainian Navy.
Elon #Musk ‘committed evil’ with Starlink order, says Ukrainian official
Ukrainian presidential adviser says deaths of civilians ‘the price of a cocktail of ignorance and big ego’
a new biography revealed details about how the business magnate ordered his #Starlink satellite communications network to be turned off near the #Crimean coast last year to hobble a Ukrainian drone attack on russian warships.
soooooooo how does everyone feel, after spending so much money and treasure, on trying to protect ukrainian lives and territory, that elon fucking musk puts his thumb on the scale to protect the russians. seems as if governments everywhere should be calling for blood, but not a fucking peep from anyone except the ukrainians. curious.
🇺🇦 Rustem Umerov, who is set to become Ukraine’s new defence minister, is a leading member of the #Crimean Tatar community who has represented his country in sensitive negotiations with #Russia
8/ #Russian Ministry of Defense is claiming all 2 #Ukrainian S-200 missiles were shot down, the bridge is undamaged and that the smoke seen on the bridge is a smoke screen.
Personally, I've never seen a black smoke screen like that. 🤷
🇺🇦 “There is no doubt that thanks to the servicemen of the Security and Defense Forces of Ukraine, volunteers, Ukrainian society, citizens of #Ukraine who in the conditions of occupied #Crimea and in the torture chambers of russian prisons resist the russian invaders in Crimea […] the state flag of Ukraine and the Crimean Tatar national flag will soon be raised over the liberated Crimea again” - The head of the #Mejlis of the #Crimean#Tatar people Refat Chubarov