Successful attacks on Russian bases and ammunition depots in annexed Crimea have had a “significant psychological effect on the Russian leadership” in the Kremlin, Western officials have said.
Six months since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to invade Ukraine, attacks on Crimea — the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014 but still recognised as Ukrainian by western nations — have been ramping up.
More than half of the Russian navy’s Black Sea Fleet combat jets were put out of action last week following a string of blasts at the Saky military airfield in western Crimea.
