DefenceTalkRussia said an attack from a drone Sunday wounded six personnel at the headquarters of its Black Sea fleet in annexed Crimea, as authorities in Ukraine’s southern city of Mykolaiv reported it had suffered its “strongest” shelling of the war. AFP journalists witnessed an intense bombardment of the eastern town of Bakhmut after President Volodymyr […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-says-drone-attack-hits-crimea-navy-hq-79159/

DefenceTalkRussia announced a new drawdown of military forces from the Moscow-annexed Crimean peninsula on Thursday, despite Ukraine’s Western allies meeting similar announcements with skepticism. “Units of the southern military district that ended tactical exercises at training grounds on the Crimean peninsula are returning by rail to their permanent bases,” the defence ministry said in a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-announces-new-military-withdrawal-from-crimea-77966/

DefenceTalkThe Russian military said Tuesday it had launched exercises involving some 6,000 troops and at least 60 fighter jets in southern Russia near Ukraine and in Moscow-annexed Crimea. The southern military district described the live-fire drills as a combat readiness check, as tensions rage between Moscow and the West over Crimea. “Units will practice carrying […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-launches-new-military-drills-in-south-crimea-77771/

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DefenceTalkNATO said Thursday it was watching “with concern” growing tensions between Ukraine and Russia over Crimea, and urged Moscow to defuse the situation. Ukraine earlier put its forces on high alert after Russia accused it of “terrorist attacks” into Crimea, which Moscow annexed in 2014. A NATO official said the US-led military alliance was “monitoring […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nato-watching-crimea-tensions-with-concern-67999/

DefenceTalkThe Russian Black Sea Fleet that is based in Crimea has been reinforced with a squadron of eight newest Sukhoi Su-30SM fighters. The fleet will receive several more aircraft of this type later this year, the fleet’s spokesman Vyacheslav Trukhachev said on Thursday. “After the reunification of Crimea with Russia in 2014 the process of […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russias-newest-su-30sm-fighter-squadron-stands-up-in-crimea-66914/

DefenceTalkRussia is to reinforce its troop deployments in annexed Crimea and southern Russia because of the worsening crisis in Ukraine and the buildup of foreign forces nearby, the country’s defence minister said on Tuesday. Sergei Shoigu told a meeting of defence ministry top brass it was a “priority” to deploy a “full and self-reliant group […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-deploy-reinforcements-to-crimea-area-minister-60599/

DefenceTalkRussia plans to reinforce its Black Sea Fleet based in Crimea, which it annexed from Ukraine in March, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday. “This year, the Black Sea fleet will receive (new) submarines and new-generation ships,” Shoigu said in televised comments, without giving details of numbers. New air defense units will also be […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-to-reinforce-crimea-fleet-minister-59507/

DefenceTalkAll military units stationed in Crimea are now under the control of the Russian military, and remaining Ukrainian servicemen are departing the peninsula, the region’s first deputy prime minister, Rustam Temirgaliyev, said on Monday. As Crimea’s reunification process began last week, a total of 147 military units in the predominantly Russian-ethnic region have replaced Ukrainian […]https://www.defencetalk.com/no-ukrainian-military-units-left-in-crimea-59124/

DefenceTalkThe tugboats came in the evening, carrying three dozen Russian sailors and pro-Russian militiamen who climbed aboard the Ternopil and told the crew to leave. The captain of the Ternopil in the port of Sevastopol in Crimea lined up his crew of 91 men, thanked them for their service and told them that they were […]https://www.defencetalk.com/ukraines-navy-at-end-of-rope-in-crimea-59108/