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Russian combat aviation must be destroyed wherever it is, by all effective means. It is also quite fair to strike at Russian airfields. And we need this joint solution with our partners - a security solution,
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on the Telegram messaging app In the port of Sevastopol, the submarine of the Russian Black Sea fleet ‘Rostov-on-Don’ was successfully attacked,
the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine wrote on Saturday in a Facebook post The Morozovsky district was declared in a state of emergency,
the governor of the Rostov region, Vasili Golubev, wrote on his Telegram channel Crimea is deep inside Russian-occupied territory and far from the current front lines,
Millions of citizens live on the peninsula, and the Ukrainians do not want to harm the civilian population,
If you look at all the cases when armies were clearly ready to fight and defend their positions, we can say that Crimea is practically an undefendable fortress,
That's what happened during World War II, when the Germans captured Crimea in 1942, and the Soviets recaptured it in 1944,
Without an amphibious naval force to land in Crimea, how can Ukraine project enough troops onto the peninsula to claim its control?"
said Germond of Lancaster University The Russians are heavily fortified and well-defended in these areas, and it will take time for the Ukrainians to break these defenses,
said Mark Temnycky, a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Eurasia Center, who added that troops are proceeding with "extreme caution." Retaking Crimea would be extremely difficult because Crimea is essentially an island,
Mark Cancian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel who's a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told BI Even with F-16s, I don't think Ukraine has the ability to provide its ground forces effective close air support, given Russian air defense capability,
An amphibious assault is impossible because Ukraine lacks ships to carry large numbers of troops and their heavy equipment, ... Further, Russia still has long-range aircraft and submarines, which are essentially invulnerable at sea."
So, from my perspective, the moment the Ukrainian army will appear on the land bridge — the Isthmus of Pereko — between Crimea and the rest of Ukraine, the Russians will face a very simple choice,
There is no case in history when anyone could defend Crimea from an attack,