Swedish authorities say #Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining #NATO earlier this year.
#Sweden said interference from Russia and #Crimea has targeted three different Sirius satellite networks situated at the orbital position of 5-degrees east. That location is one of the major satellite positions serving Nordic countries and eastern Europe.
Ukrainians are now able to strike targets on any location within Russian occupied Crimea with astonishing effect.
The total number of individually struck air defense systems is approximately 15. Specifically, divisions of air defense systems in the modifications of S-300, S-350, and S-400 have been affected; dozens of launcher units of these systems have been destroyed, along with over 15 radar stations and more than 10 command posts.
Here are all the locations within Russian-occupied Crimea where Ukrainian forces have successfully destroyed air defense systems from May to June 2024:
Belbek
Sevastopol
Chornomorske
Yevpatoriia
Dzhankoi
Tarkhankut
Saky
Donske
Mysove
Alushta
mount Ai Petri
Ukrainian military is preparing to increase its reliance on air support for ground operations once enough Western fighter jets, including F-16s and Mirages, and therefore is targeting #Russian air defense in order to secure the airspace. The invaders must be destroyed.
🇺🇦 🇷🇺 Recent U.S. military support is bolstering #Ukraine’s defense and offensive capabilities, with new long-range missiles hitting critical targets in #Crimea and slowing Russian advances near #Kharkiv
Children in #Crimea forced to write "thank you" letters to the military occupiers from #Russia invading their country #Ukraine and committing atrocities on their relatives and fellow Ukrainians.
#BBC can't get its mind whether they want to present #Russia narrative or international law, so some dumb editor pictured #Crimea as part of Russia but at the same time Donbas as part of #Ukraine. For this map, the editor would be arrested in Russia as it doesn't show the "new territories" (Donbas, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson oblasts) but they would be (and already are) criticised in the West 🤦
On this day, 1944, the Deportation of Crimean Tatars began. All the women, children, elderly loaded onto cattle wagons and exiled across the soviet union.
When the men returned home from fighting the Germans they found their families gone and russians living in their homes.
As a result of the Deportation, or Sürgünlik, 46% of the Crimean Tatar population died. Families torn apart. Culture and history destroyed.
@hans yes - i actually typed about people saying it is 'mostly russians' initially, but i ran out of space with the other things i wanted to write too...
According to reports by Crimean media, last night there was a direct hit to the main Russian warehouse of missile and artillery weapons where most of the missiles for the Su-27, Su-30 and MiG-31 aircraft were stored in occupied Crimea.
4/ According to open sources of information, the 39th helicopter regiment of the 27th mixed aviation division of the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Command of the Southern Military District, three aviation squadrons are stationed at the airport.
If they completely lost American support it would be hard for them not to. Europe would really have to step up their support to cover the gap left behind by the US, and it's not clear they could do that, and the US pulling out could give a nice opening to a number of other nations pulling their support. Basically, if the US pulled it's support for Ukraine, Ukraine would be left basically completely reliant on Germany and Poland.
It's hard to imagine a worse situation for Ukraine to find itself in.
Today in Labor History March 30, 1856: The Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Crimean War, between Russia and the victorious Ottoman Empire (allied with the UK, France and Sardinia-Piedmont). The flashpoint was a conflict over the rights of Christian minorities in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, and control of its holy sites.
The Crimean War was one of the first to utilize modern armaments, like explosive shells, railways and telegraphs. Much of these armaments came from Alfred Nobel’s family armament factory. It was also a particularly deadly war. Around 670,000 soldiers died in only four years, the majority from preventable infectious diseases (e.g., typhus, typhoid, cholera, and dysentery), not from battle wounds. Mortality rates for soldiers were 23-31%, compared with U.S. troop mortality rates of only 2% during the Vietnam War.
In the aftermath of the Crimean War, Russia sold Alaska to the U.S. out of fear that the UK would simply take it from them in their weakened military state. The last living veteran of the Crimean war was a Greek tortoise, named Timothy, who had served as a ship’s mascot during the war. He died in 2004, nearly 150 years after the war ended. Despite their victory, the Ottomans gained no new territory, and the war nearly bankrupted them, contributing to their decline as a super power. The Crimean War also helped forge the alliances and grievances that would lead to the First World War, and quite likely to the conditions leading up to Russia’s recent annexation of Crimea and its current fight with Ukraine.
Florence Nightengale became famous as a nurse during this war. Tolstoy fought in the 11-month Siege of Sevastopol. His experiences in this war contributed to his pacifism and anarchism. After witnessing a public execution in France, one year after the Crimean War ended, he wrote, “The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens ... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere.” The war also influenced his novel, “War and Peace.”
The Main Directorate of #Intelligence of #Ukraine: Damage to the occupiers' large landing ship Yamal is critical. It has also become known that the #russian reconnaissance ship Ivan Khurs was also damaged as a result of yesterday's attack on #Crimea.
EMPIRES OF LIES? THE POLITICAL USES OF CULTURAL HERITAGE IN WAR by Nour A. Munawar (2023) #Article#OpenAccess
"This article investigates how cultural memory has been manipulated in the war in Ukraine, and in the previously occupied Crimea. We argue that cultural heritage, memory, and museum collections have been removed and/or repurposed to legitimise the current invasion by linking it to a grand narrative of Russian power and the recovery of ancestral lands. We present case studies from the annexation of Crimea (2014), the war in Ukraine (2022 -), and make a brief comparison with the armed conflict in Syria (2011 – 2022)."