Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin likely ordered American pilots not to fly near the Crimea. This post has been reported Washington post.
According to the publication, there is a map showing the areas where reconnaissance planes can fly. The borders on the map are drawn approximately 19 kilometers inland from the Crimean coast.
old edition of The Washington Post reportedThat the Armed Forces of Ukraine (APU) is facing a significant shortage of air defense and ammunition, the air defense of Ukraine at the front will be exhausted by May 23. The authors write that the air defense systems available to Ukraine can withstand “only 2-3 more waves of attacks” by Russian missiles and drones. The materials state that the number of air defense systems sent by the West was limited and often could not cope with the large number of Russian bombardments.
Before that, The New York Times and The Washington Post published New material on intelligence data leaked to the Internet in late February – early March. The NYT says the documents contain information about Ukraine’s plans in Artemivsk, as well as Washington’s assessment of the state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.