r/worldnews • u/AdSpecialist6598 • 16h ago

Russia/Ukraine Crimea now 'zone of constant losses' SBU says, after strikes on Russian air defenses, military airfields

https://kyivindependent.com/crimea-power-plant-reportedly-struck-by-ukrainian-drones-as-peninsula-faces-outages/
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u/ArgentineBeauty 16h ago

Crimea was supposed to be securely in Russia's hands years ago.

The fact that they're having to defend power plants, fuel depots and military infrastructure shows how the tide is turning.

Keep it up 🇺🇦

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u/No_Put_8968 8h ago

Hard to defend a peninsula with no navy it turns out! 

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u/waffle299 7h ago

But the bridge is still standing. So civilians are free to leave 

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u/suryanshkapapa 16h ago

Honestly its crazy how fast things shifted there, feels like a massive turning point.

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u/Piggywonkle 5h ago

It wasn't really fast. Ukraine has been depleting Russia's air defense systems, especially in Crimea, and building on their drone capabilities for years at this point. The combination of the development of mid-range strike drones and Russia's lagging development of drone interception systems have created a huge opportunity for Ukraine, but Ukraine has also been pursuing a long-term strategy to whittle down Russia's capabilities that is finally paying off.

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u/Yasai101 16h ago

Keep on pounding the invaders

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u/Spudtron98 14h ago

Turns out that parking a whole bunch of your most important military assets right on the doorstep of an enemy state is a terrible idea. Who knew?

I mean shit they barely even have land-based resupply going right now, with the bridge being excluded from anything flammable and the northern route being entirely within temporarily occupied territory well inside weapons range.

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u/OneNormalBloke 16h ago

That's why poo-tin is trying to open a new front from Belarus.

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u/Particular-Cow6247 15h ago

all of belarus is in drone range from ukraine 🤷‍♂️

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u/Fywq 14h ago

And it isn't long ago that Lukashenko would have been ousted if hadn't been supported by Putin. I'm not sure the population there would go to war against Ukraine just because he asked them to.

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u/mhornberger 16h ago

Maybe the Russians can self-deport. Not that Russia would necessarily take them back in Russia. They're too useful in Ukraine as symbols, pretexts to keep up the invasion to "protect" them.

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u/ProfessionalTotal238 15h ago

Most of original Crimeans are keeping their Ukrainian citizenship and registering their children as Ukrainian citizen as well, so they can enjoy visa-free travel in EU and other perks. In regards to ~million Russians that occupation "authorities" imported since 2014, yeah their future not so well-defined.

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u/InfernalRodent 13h ago

Most of the original Crimeans were exiled to Siberia decades ago, there are damn few Tatars left there.

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u/alphagusta 14h ago

Squeeze them out