Demilitarising and liberating Crimea on our agenda now – National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine

ALONA MAZURENKO – FRIDAY, 19 AUGUST 2022, 20:16

Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, has said that demilitarising and then liberating Crimea is part of Ukraine’s agenda.

Source: Danilov on Twitter

Quote: "Crimea is Ukraine’s sovereign territory.

A matter on our agenda is the gradual demilitarisation of the peninsula, followed by its liberation."

Details: Danilov added that if Crimean collaborators [who assist Russia in Ukraine] and traitors provide valuable information about Russian military targets and equipment on the territory of temporarily occupied Crimea, this might mitigate their sentences.

Background:

• On 9 August, blasts rocked the Saky military airfield in Novofedorivka, in Crimea. Russia is said to have lost nine military aircraft to those explosions. Russian occupying authorities claimed that the explosions occurred as a result of a "fire safety violation".
• On 16 August, an ammunition storage site caught on fire near the village of Maiske in the Dzhankoi district, also in Crimea. In addition, explosions damaged the railway between the Azovske and Roz’izd stations. The Russian Ministry of Defence called this an act of sabotage.
• The Department of Strategic Communications of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported that the Russians were unloading military equipment and ammunition in the area of ​​the Azovske railway station [in the northern part of the peninsula] damaged by explosions in Russian-occupied Crimea. Russian anti-aircraft missile systems are said to have been located in the vicinity of ​​the airfield, near Dzhankoi.
• Ukrainian Intelligence reported that after the explosions at Russian airfields in occupied Crimea, the Russians began moving their combat aircraft to the Russian Federation and deeper into the peninsula. They have also set up a checkpoint at the approach to the Kerch/Crimean bridge.
• On 18 August, blasts rocked the city of Kerch in eastern Crimea, where the Russian-built Crimean Bridge [connecting Crimea to the Russian Federation - ed.] begins. Explosions also occurred near the Belbek airfield in Sevastopol. In both cases, the Russians claimed that the explosions accompanied their air defence systems working; in Belbek, they claimed to have shot down a UAV.

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