Ukraine Puts Crimea on Notice

Even the Russian Command HQ is not a safe place to hide

Firefighters extinguishing a fire in a building at night. (Representative image — Licensed by author)

Russian military installations and weapons systems, as well as warehouses in Crimea, are catching fire almost every day or every other day. With so many things happening across the Ukraine-Russia frontline, it becomes hard to notice anything that happens deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

However, what is happening in Crimea, especially in the last four weeks, has a ton of implications for what will happen in the future. There is a long list of things Ukraine has done since August. I consider the following events to be the ones that we need to take a look at:

• Ukraine captured at least two oil rigs in the Black Sea that doubled as Russia’s surveillance outposts.
• Two S-400 systems were destroyed.
• A Russian garrison in South Crimea was raided by Ukrainian special forces.
• Russia’s naval base in Sevastopol was attacked, destroying a submarine and a landing ship.
• Ukraine unilaterally established a grain corridor. The vessel Aroyat “left the port Chornomorsk after loading 17,600 metric tons of Ukrainian wheat for Egypt,” Oleksandr Kubrakov, Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister, said on Twitter. This will be the second vessel to depart with grain from…