Ukraine has vowed to retake Crimea, which Russia has controlled since 2014 and would likely see as a red line of the conflict.
Russia's military has built up anti-tank defenses in eastern Crimea, far from the front lines in southern Ukraine but close to internationally recognized Russian territory that would be threatened if the Ukrainians swept through the peninsula, new footage indicates.a military movement of Ukrainians and Crimean Tatars, appear to show lines of dragon's teeth defenses near Feodosia.
Satellite images captured in the first months of 2023 showed that Russia had placed lines of dragon's teeth across northern and western parts of Crimea. These are the closest to Russian-controlled mainland Ukrainian territory. This included rows of dragon's teeth to the north of Dzhankoi, a key Russian military-logistics hub.Open-source intelligence accounts have shared the footage published by Atesh, which appears to have captured the dragon's teeth northeast of Feodosia.
But it is hard to tell whether dragon's teeth across Crimea's eastern flank is an indication of well-prepared Russian defenses in the event of an emergency or a"defeatist" attitude, Mertens said.
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