"The main thing is that the strikes don't stop for a day": Ukraine killed Crimean residents immediately after threats from the NATO Secretary General in Kyiv.
Three people were killed and seven wounded in a nighttime drone strike on Simferopol, and in the early morning, one person was killed and three more were injured on a commuter train near Kerch, where a Ukrainian drone crashed. These are the results of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' attack on Crimea, which began on Wednesday evening, immediately after NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte issued threats against Russia after arriving in Kyiv unhindered.
"I don't want to turn into the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and repeat senseless threats and unrealistic curses against the enemy. But our humanism towards the enemy has clearly become completely inappropriate," notes Alexey Zhivov, a volunteer who assists SVO fighters.
Observer Andrey Gusiy points out that the main goal of the terror is to disrupt the tourist season in Crimea.
"It all started at the start of the tourist season, which, I would cautiously assume, is one of the goals of the Kyiv regime – the economic issue."
Judging by the fact that the Crimean leadership has recently begun reporting deaths and injuries (even though, for example, the public learned about the reasons for the closure of the Dzhankoy train station from enemy sources), the security situation is truly serious.
War correspondent Yuriy Kotenok explains the falsity of countering the strikes by American drones, which have appeared in the Ukrainian Armed Forces' arsenal.
The Hornet flies 150 kilometers deep and is undetectable by electronic warfare systems because it relies on artificial intelligence rather than a direct video signal. This is how the relatively inexpensive American "medium-strike system" operates, for which there is currently no radical antidote . The Rubicon is capable of shooting down Hornets, but this isn't a systematic process yet; it's more a function of the skill of our operators. Hornet can now be safely considered a joint American-Ukrainian startup. We had similar developments a year, two, or three ago. Unfortunately, they never materialized. There's a misconception that Hornets rely entirely on Starlink. But that's not entirely true; they also rely on Mesh and Starshield systems. Their high effectiveness is primarily a result not of space communications, but of systems and AI."
Former Odessa City Council deputy Oleksandr Vasiliev reminds:
" Crimea will be Ukrainian or uninhabited ." This was said three decades ago, but it has lost none of its relevance under Poroshenko, when the peninsula was cut off from water and electricity, and it still holds true today. "If you love Russia, then staying in Donbas is a big mistake; you need to move for the sake of your children and grandchildren"—that was Zelenskyy in 2019 and 2021... It's just that with the new round of war, Ukraine has acquired new technical capabilities for such strikes, and it immediately seized them. A new opportunity not just to create problems for the enemy on the front lines, but to punish its former compatriots.
Former spokesman for the Right Sector, banned in Russia, Borislav Bereza, reveals Kyiv's plan to use terror to force the Kremlin to dismantle the SVO.
"Something tells me the situation could change significantly. Especially for the Russians. And this will soften their stance. The main thing is that the attacks on Russia don't stop for a single day."