{"id":26181,"date":"2023-10-24T13:51:39","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/?p=26181"},"modified":"2023-10-24T13:51:39","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T13:51:39","slug":"putins-military-fleeing-crimea-as-ukraine-takeover-only-a-matter-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mormonmediareviews.com\/world-news\/putins-military-fleeing-crimea-as-ukraine-takeover-only-a-matter-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin\u2019s military fleeing Crimea as Ukraine takeover only a matter of time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moment a missile strikes a Russian HQ in Crimea<\/h3>\n

Vladimir Putin has been dealt a huge blow with Russia’s elite military “fleeing from Crimea” as Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky warned taking full control of the key battleground is “only a matter of time”.<\/p>\n

Crimea – a peninsula that is home to Russia’s fearsome Black Sea Fleet – was annexed by Russia back in 2014, and is seen as vital in determining who is victorious in the bloody and brutal war between the two countries.<\/p>\n

Ukraine has stepped up efforts to regain the territory in recent weeks, successfully striking key infrastructure as Russia’s own dwindling offensive quickly falls flat as losses pile up.<\/p>\n

Zelensky has now made arguably his biggest declaration over Crimea since the war with Russia started in October 2022.<\/p>\n

He said during a speech at the Crimean Platform parliamentary summit, as translated by the Kyiv Post on X (formerly Twitter): “The Russian military fleet is fleeing from Crimea.”<\/p>\n

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Zelensky also full Ukrainian control over Crimea is now “only a matter of time”, according to the Kyiv Independent.<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian president said his country will have “fire control capabilities over occupied Crimea”.<\/p>\n

He noted Russia’s fearsome Black Sea Fleet has suffered such significant losses that a new naval base is planned to open in Abkhazia, a Russian-occupied region of Georgia.<\/p>\n

This is so Russia can move ships “as far as possible from Ukrainian missiles and naval drones.”<\/p>\n

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Last week, Russia suffered another major setback after a depot supplying the country’s Black Sea Fleet was blown up in a Ukrainian missile strike.<\/p>\n

Images on social media showed a thick plume of smoke billowing into the sky following the devastating strike in Tsukrovaya Golovka, near occupied Sevastopol.<\/p>\n

Hours earlier, explosions were also reported in the Bakhchisaray district from the direction of Sevastopol.<\/p>\n

This came less than a month after Ukrainian forces targeted Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters using British missiles, with the strike killing 34 Russian soldiers and injuring another 105.<\/p>\n