The families of the Russian officers in the Black Sea fleet have left Crimea, say Ukrainian supporters
The families of the senior officers in the Russian Black Sea fleet have left Crimea in recent weeks, according to the Ukrainian partisan Movement, which made the announcement on Sunday, April 20.
The Crucier Moskva from the Black Sea Fleet Photo EPA
According to the source, the Russian authorities would have issued, at the beginning of April, an internal directive that requires increased security measures in all military units in the occupied peninsula. These include the intensification of supervision, secret patrols made by civilian reservists and efforts to hide the military technique. Also, all the holidays for the Russian military in Crimea would have been suspended, The Kyiv Independent reports.
“Currently, panic rules among the units of the Russian Black Sea fleet,” has transmitted AtesH in a post on Telegram. The information could not be verified independently of the Ukrainian publication.
Ukraine has repeatedly launched coordinated attacks on Russian strategic military targets since the beginning of the war. At the beginning of April, Ukrainian military intelligence services announced that they had hit two Russian military vessels and an anti -aircraft defense system.
On April 13, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the German Conservative Party CDU and future Chancellor, suggested that the provision of Taurus missiles to Ukraine would allow precise blows to some high -value military objectives in Crimea, including the strategic Kerci Bridge, which connects the Continental Russia Peninsula.
Russia illegally annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, and since then the peninsula has been used as a Russian military base.
The AtesH movement frequently carries out sabotage actions in Russia and occupied Ukrainian regions. On March 9, the group sabotaged a railway line that connected the crime occupied to the front line in the Zaporojie region, disrupting the Russian supply routes. A similar attack was reported in the Russian Smolensk region on March 23.
