Recapture of ‘Boyko Towers’ takes Kyiv ‘many steps closer to regaining Crimea’, GUR says
During the operation, GUR said, there was a clash between Ukrainian special forces on boats and a Russian fighter jet, which was damaged and forced to retreat.
GUR also captured other “valuable trophies” such as helicopter munitions and a radar system that can track the movement of ships in the Black Sea, it said. Before Russia seized the Crimea peninsula, Ukraine extracted a significant part of its natural gas from the Black Sea shelf, providing gas not only for Crimea but also to mainland regions of Ukraine.
The Russian defence ministry didn’t make any immediate comment on the Ukrainian claim, but in recent weeks it has claimed that Russian warplanes have destroyed several Ukrainian military speedboats in the area. Russian military bloggers posted that the platforms had been uninhabited for more than a year and a Ukrainian operation to briefly land troops there last month wasn’t followed by a lasting military presence and came at a heavy cost for Ukraine, a claim that couldn’t be independently verified.and has urged international allies to support the effort.
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