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❗️🇷🇺🇺🇦 Combined attack by the Ukrainian armed forces in the Black Sea

On the morning of September 14, Ukrainian formations carried out another attack on the Crimean peninsula.

First, 11 UAV were launched from the vicinity of Odessa (for the first time in a long time not "Mugins" were used for this purpose).

The drones were shot down by the 31st Air Force and Air Defense Division around 5.30 a.m. over Yevpatoria.

Around 5.50 a.m the AFU hit the vicinity of Uyutnoye with an "Neptun" anti-ship missile R-360, as a result a S-300 SAM launcher was hit (relevant footage already appeared on the Net)

❗Once again the AFU uses the same tactics as a few weeks ago. After the UAV raid, the positions of the S-300 air defense system were determined, and the Neptun was used almost immediately. First, the AFU waited until the ammunition was exhausted, and then hit the SAMs.

🔻 Over the past two days, the Ukrainian armed forces also attacked several times a detachment of warships of the Black Sea Fleet consisting of the Vasily Bykov and Sergey Kotov.

• In total, 12 uncrewed boats were observed, six yesterday and six more today.

• On 13 September three drones were hit by small arms from ships.

• Three more were hit by naval aviation helicopters from the Kacha airfield and the patrol ship Vasily Bykov.

• This morning, five were destroyed on the approach to the OPK, and one managed to get close to the "Bykov" and hook the board (the degree of damage is not critical).

🔻 As we said yesterday, the lack of response to the increasingly aggressive actions of the collective West by the hands of Ukraine is fraught with great consequences.

The strikes will be repeated in the coming days, and herbivorous responses are not the solution.

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“Granit, cease fire!”

Russian artillery heavily pounded its own forces in July 2023 for two hours.

EW was suppressing the communication all this time.

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"The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), Vasyl Malyuk, told about how the Kerch Bridge bombing was prepared on October 8, 2022.

According to him, the explosives were hidden in rolls of film, its total capacity was 21 tons of TNT equivalent.

At the same time, all the Russians transporting the explosives, as well as the truck driver who died at the time of the explosion, were used "in the dark".

"We have gone through seven circles of hell, used so many people in the dark! The Russians "closed" 22 people - imprisoned them. They incriminate all of them for complicity in a terrorist act. Although in fact they were engaged in their usual routine business. They were just ordinary Russian smugglers".

Photo of preparation of rolls with explosives: SBU"

The chart below shows how control of the country has developed over the course of the war.

Prior to the invasion on 24th February 2022, Russia occupied approximately 7.04% of Ukraine.

Subsequently, Russia has expanded its occupation to an additional 10.46% of Ukraine.

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The lack of Russian milblogger reaction to a Ukrainian strike on the Chonhar bridge between occupied Crimea and occupied Kherson Oblast represents a notable inflection in Russian reporting on the war in Ukraine and may suggest that the Kremlin has directed Russian milbloggers to refrain from covering certain topics.

The Ukrainian Armed Forces announced on July 29 that Ukrainian forces successfully struck the Chonhar bridge on the M-18 (Dzhankoi-Melitopol) highway between occupied Crimea and occupied Kherson Oblast.

ISW has not observed any Russian milblogger discussion about the Ukrainian strike or Russian milbloggers promoting Kherson occupation administration head Vladimir Saldo’s claim that Russian forces intercepted 12 Ukrainian Strom Shadow cruise missiles targeting the bridge.

The only other Russian source to comment on the strikes was a local Russian news Telegram channel, which amplified alleged claims from Russian tourists in the area about the bridge being closed to traffic.

Russian milbloggers responded to a Ukrainian strike on the Chonhar bridge on June 22 with widespread outrage and concern, and Russian milbloggers routinely comment on both successful and allegedly unsuccessful Ukrainian strikes on Russian logistics.

ISW has previously assessed that select Russian milbloggers may be shaping their coverage of the war in Ukraine in ways more favorable to Kremlin narratives out of fear of Kremlin punishment following the removal of prominent critical voices in the Russian information space particularly pro-war critic Igor Girkin and Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin.

General fear of Kremlin punishment would not likely result in such a near-universal lack of coverage of a dramatic event, however, and it is more likely that a specific Kremlin directive not to cover disruptions to critical GLOCs caused this lack of reporting.

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"Azov" commanders will soon take part in the war, there is no ban, - National Guard commander Pivnenko.

"Prokopenko (Redis) can take part in military operations within a month. Let's see, life will show."

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