The Ukrainian raid on the Saki air base in Crimea last week knocked out more than half of the combat naval aviation of Russia in the Black Sea. It is reported by The Guardian on Friday, August 19, citing a briefing of an unnamed representative of Western intelligence.
ITV journalist Emma Burrous on Twitter quoted an official from the same briefing: “The real story of the Black Sea Fleet. They lost their flagship Moscow, they lost their serpent island, lost half of their naval aviation, and their military headquarters was blocked” .
“Such raids have a positive effect on the fighting spirit of Ukrainians, but in general,” fighting stagnation, “the Western intelligence representative, the Guardian editor on defense and security, Deng Sabbach, who was present at a briefing, retells.
According to the representative of the intelligence, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation is now occupying a “very defense position” and is trying not to fall on the line of fire, and confidence in the proud fleet with a long history is “undermined. He also stated that shelling in Kherson and Crimea was the work of Ukrainian special forces or partisans, but did not go into details.
“This is a combination of incredible courage of people and new opportunities,” Emma Burrose quotes it, in turn, the newsletter of the Itn Burrose television channel. “I think we can accept that Ukrainians strike in the depths of the enemy line. Such goals as Belgorod are such as Belgorod , these are legitimate goals that do not threaten the territorial integrity of Russia. “
Speaking about the situation in the south, the official said that Russia has a lack of a military contingent in Kherson and on the right bank of the Dnieper.
As for the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, to which the main attention is now focused, the Western intelligence representative assures that Ukraine and Russia are using it to “create the information background” and that the object is strong enough to withstand even the fall of a civilian airliner. “Direct shelling does not bother us,” he said.