upcoming attacks
Mykhailo Podolyak told reporters of The Guardian that Ukraine intend Destroy the Crimean bridge.
“This is illegal construction and the main supply gate of the Russian army in Crimea. An adviser to the head of Zelensky’s office said such facilities should be destroyed.
According to him, Ukraine is conducting a “counter-offensive” aimed at creating “chaos within the Russian forces”. The Ukrainian Armed Forces are attacking the supply lines of the Russian army. Podolyak said there could be “explosions at Saki airport” on the peninsula, as well as new attacks “in the next two to three months”, “such as the mysterious explosions at a railroad junction and an airbase in Crimea on Tuesday.” week.”
The publication states that “Ukraine does not take responsibility” for these events in Crimea.
“Our strategy is to destroy logistics, supply lines, ammunition depots and other military infrastructure. “This is creating chaos in the Russian forces,” he said.
He is sure that this approach of Kiev prevented Moscow from using its artillery power “to conquer the lands in the Donbass”, as in “Mariupol and Severodonetsk”, where the cities were “destroyed”.
“So, Russia taught everyone that a counterattack requires a huge amount of manpower, like a giant fist, and you only need to move in one direction,” said Zelensky’s chief adviser to his office.
At the same time, he noted that “the Ukrainian counteroffensive looks completely different”, since the Armed Forces of Ukraine “does not use the tactics of the 60s and 70s of the last century.”
“But these statements can also be interpreted as an acknowledgment that Ukraine is struggling to accumulate the number of people and military equipment needed to launch a full-blown counteroffensive in the south of the country, which often requires the superiority of three or more soldiers against one,” The Guardian explained. journalists. .
Instead, Ukraine “tried to cut off Kherson, the only Russian city on the western bank of the Dnieper, with the help of newly delivered Western rocket artillery, damaging road and railway bridges,” according to the publication. Kyiv expects that, thanks to these attacks, “Russia will no longer be able to effectively replenish its supplies and forces.”
The need for MLRS
Podolyak also told the publication that Ukraine has requested “another 50 – 60 – 80” multiple rocket launchers, in addition to the existing arsenal of about 20 units. Of these, 16 were supplied to HIMARS by the United States. Three more MLRS are following the M270s from the UK.
The chief adviser to Zelensky’s office added that Ukraine hopes to weaken the forces of the Russian army with the help of long-range missiles supplied by the West, creating a “lack of supplies and ammunition shortages”. According to Podolyak, this will “force the Russians to fight as they did in the first months of the war.”
He also “suggested” last week that “an attack on an airbase” in Crimea “could be the work of partisans”, but “rejected any suggestion that it might have been an accident”.
“Of course, I agree with the Russian Ministry of Defense, which predicts that there will be more such incidents in the next two to three months. “I think we may see more of these cases,” Podolyak said.
On August 9, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that ammunition exploded at an airfield near Novofedorovka in Crimea.
“According to the report from the site, there was no fire effect in the packaged ammunition storage area in the airspace,” the message said.
On the eve of the defense ministry said that the explosion of ammunition at a military warehouse in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea was due to sabotage. Because of this, power lines, power plants, railroad tracks and residential buildings were damaged.