In the temporarily occupied Crimea, it was reported that Sevastopol has been switched to a regime of temporary power outages, writes UNN.
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"A regime of temporary electricity supply restrictions has been introduced in Sevastopol. This measure is forced. It is necessary to eliminate the overload of electrical networks outside our region, in order to prevent an accident in the entire energy system. Since the decision on the outages was made by the system operator, there is no exact hourly schedule by addresses at this moment," wrote the russian-appointed "governor" of occupied Sevastopol, Mykhailo Razvozhaev, on his Telegram channel.
As noted by the head of the Center for the Study of Occupation, Petro Andriushchenko, at night in Crimea it was loud in Sevastopol and Simferopol.
"At night, strikes were carried out on energy infrastructure facilities, followed by power outages along almost the entire coast," Andriushchenko stated on social media.
The monitoring Telegram channel "Crimean Wind" indicated that the Balaklava Thermal Power Plant was under attack, as well as the Tavriiska Thermal Power Plant.
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On the night of June 22, a railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal was destroyed.
Earlier, the military, using Ukrainian-made middle-strike UAVs, also struck key Crimean bridges near Chongar and Armyansk. The strikes were carried out using FP-2 and "Behemoth" drones. The bridge connecting the Kherson region with Crimea in Chongar was hit twice – on the night of June 6-7, and also on the night of June 9.
In addition, on June 8, a bridge leading from Henichesk to the Arabat Spit came under attack. Two more bridges over the North Crimean Canal – near the settlements of Preobrazhenka and Myrne near Armyansk – were attacked on June 11.
Furthermore, on the night of June 13, the "Dzhankoi" checkpoint, a railway bridge, and a pontoon crossing were struck. In the video recordings of the strikes, shown by the 1st Separate Assault Regiment named after Dmytro Kotsiubailo, instead of a traditional sight, there is a green heart, characteristic of attack drones produced by the company Fire Point.
The series of strikes on bridges and logistics routes connecting the temporarily occupied Crimea with the mainland part of Ukraine became another stage of the Ukrainian strategy to isolate the Russian group in the south.
Military expert Oleh Zhdanov believes that the peninsula remains the most vulnerable link in the Russian occupation system.
"We have always said from the very beginning that it would be easiest to liberate Crimea, rather than the territory of mainland Ukraine. Why? Because the mainland part adjoins the Russian Federation, and there is very powerful logistics there. But Crimea is a territory that can be captured, but it is extremely difficult to hold," noted Oleh Zhdanov in a comment to UNN.
According to the expert, the current strikes have not only a military effect of cutting off the logistics of Russian troops, but also a political one.
"Creating conditions for the liberation of Crimea nullifies all the goals that putin set for this war. I mean back in 2014, when he spoke about 'returning to the native harbor' and promised to turn Crimea into an 'unsinkable aircraft carrier.' And now this aircraft carrier is going to the bottom. The main political goal of seizing foreign territories and destroying Ukraine as a state is being broken," Zhdanov explained.
The strikes on Crimean logistics put russia before a choice: either to transfer more and more resources to protect the occupied peninsula, or to risk gradually losing control over Crimea.