"Ukraine exposes the Kremlin Black." World media - about the value of "cold -blooded and bright" blows for the purposes of the Russian Federation in Crimea and the threat of Moscow
After the events on August 16 - explosions at the Russian military base in the Dzhankoysky district, a fire at the transformer station in Dzhanka itself and probable explosions at the aerodrome in the village of Guards near Simferopol - influential Western publications analyze the consequences of such a strategy of Ukrainian forces.
They also raise the question of what new criminal blows Russia can answer and indicate the threats that sounded on the Russian side before and have been voiced again after explosions in Crimea. Video of NV Day has collected extracts from several new materials of the world media.
*** The Wall Street Journal states that the next explosions in the Crimea "mark a new phase of Kiev's efforts to weaken Moscow", and also demonstrate Ukraine's ability to continue to impress targets in the rear of the Russian Federation. After the Russian troops were selected in Ukraine in 2014, Vladimir Putin repeatedly stated that the peninsula will always belong to Moscow, the newspaper writes.
However, eight years later, explosions at the Russian air base and ammunition in the Crimea "demonstrated the vulnerability of Moscow and turned the peninsula into a new battlefield" in the Russian Federation against Ukraine, emphasizes the new WSJ realities.
According to high -ranking sources of the publication, these events were the result of Ukrainian attacks, including explosions in the Dzhankoy area on August 16 - the result of the actions of saboteurs, one of the interlocutors of the newspaper said.
The publication also explains that the short -term goal of Ukraine is not to regain Crimea, but to undermine Russia's ability to wage war in the south and east of Ukraine, since there are significant Russian bases on the peninsula, and Crimea plays an important role in the supply of Russian troops in other Ukrainian regions.
Such attacks are part of the broader strategy of Ukraine, which includes the use of the measures provided by the event to the defeat of the rear warehouses of Russian ammunition, command points and bridges. One of the tasks, according to Ukrainian sources WSJ, is to avoid direct clash with Russian troops, but instead displace them from the territories captured in the early days of the war. Kherson is a key initial goal in these efforts.
"This strategy leaves the Russians a whole" bouquet "of very bad options, but in the end will lead to the fact that they will be forced to leave the western bank of the Dnieper," said Frederick Kagan, Senior Researcher of the American Institute of Entrepreneurship, Analytical Center in Washington. when and at what price. ”And although such an Armed Forces strategy takes time, however, officials and analysts say that for Ukraine it is the best way to defeat a stronger enemy.