(MENAFN) A string of assaults on Russian air bases on the Crimean Peninsula that were claimed by Ukraine were blamed on him, including the one that destroyed the Saky military facility last month.
The commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian army, Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, stated that the attacks had been carried out by missiles or rockets in a piece co-written by lawmaker Mykhailo Zabrodskyi and published on state news agency Ukrinform without providing any further details.
Up until this point, Ukraine has only made vague allusions to its involvement in the Crimea attacks, with one senior official telling Reuters that Ukrainian saboteurs on the ground were responsible for the airbase explosions.
Regarding Moscow's alleged strategy of "distancing" the war from Russian citizens, and how Ukraine responded, "The successful efforts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine to physically transfer hostilities to... Crimea," wrote Zaluzhnyi and Zaborodskyi.
“We are talking about a series of successful rocket strikes against the enemy’s Crimean air bases, first of all, the Saky airfield,” the article read.
A footnote clarified that the Saky assault was a “combined strike” that took place on August 9 and took 10 Russian warplanes “out of action”.
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