Text taken from the Telegram channel of @rybar
Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] 🔻Last night, the Ukrainian side again attacked the Crimean peninsula with drones. In recent weeks, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been attacking the northwestern part of the peninsula daily with three to four UAVs.
▪️But this night, 60 drones were used. 58 drones were destroyed by the Black Sea Fleet aviation forces, the 31st and 52nd Air Defense Divisions and maneuverable fire groups in the area of Yevpatoriya and Armyansk.
▪️There was no actual damage to military facilities. One of the UAVs hit a false position in the vicinity of Yevpatoriya, and another crashed without detonation into a 10-story building in Komsomolske. There were no casualties as a result of the attack.
▪️The launch was carried out from the Zatoka area in the Odessa region along two routes - in the direction of Yevpatoriya and towards Krasnoperekopsk - this area has been the main target of Ukrainian attacks for almost six months.
🖍Such an emphasis of Ukrainian formations on this part of the peninsula raises certain suspicions. If we recall previous strikes, including by means of unmanned boats with FPV drones, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are specifically hitting air defense.
🚩Time after time, radar stations, launchers and other positions on the coast from Lake Donuzlav to Armyansk come under the sights of UAVs. And the task is simple - to weaken the defense in this area.
❗️If we recall how many floating craft the Ukrainian formations have accumulated in the Black Sea, as well as the arrival of special units of the Main Intelligence Directorate ( https://t.me/inners_of_the_politics/419 ) in the Odessa region, a logical question arises: why is all this being done? And the answer, it seems to us, lies on the surface.
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I would expect that the enemy in the near future will probably try to resume raids on the Chornomornaftogaz rigs off the western coast of Crimea + a landing on the Tendrovskaya Spit is not excluded.
A direct one-way landing on Crimea looks like an unlikely scenario for now, unless the goal is to sacrifice a landing for the sake of short-term PR.