Madyar explained why Crimea is a key target for Ukraine
Robert Brovdi (“Madyar”), commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces, stated that Russia—and Vladimir Putin personally—will hold on to the temporarily occupied Crimea until the very end, as they consider it their main achievement in the war against Ukraine.
According to the military official, Crimea remains a symbolically and strategically important asset for the Kremlin, even if it eventually becomes a de facto isolated territory.
“At the same time, using Crimea as a springboard for attacks on Ukraine is already a military absurdity. Next comes the complete collapse of air defense, the destruction of the remnants of the fleet, the shutdown of the shadow economy, the TOTAL depletion of resources and logistics, a tourism collapse, an energy wasteland, a transportation lockdown, and so on. Feed it, you bunker grandpa, with subsidies—but don’t dream of controlling it: things will never be the way they were,” Madyar emphasized.
At the same time, the commander addressed Ukrainians remaining in the temporarily occupied territories and apologized for the hardships caused by the constant attacks on Russian military infrastructure.
“I apologize for the constant anxiety, the closed bridges and roads, the noise, and the stress,” Brovdi noted, urging citizens to stay as far away as possible from the occupiers’ military facilities.
According to the military official, Crimea could be the decisive factor that accelerates the collapse of Russia’s occupation policy and deals a serious psychological blow to the Kremlin.
“Crimea will bring an end to Moscow—it is the breaking point, the needle of Koschey the Deathless hidden right under our noses. All dictatorships collapse suddenly—just think of any example. Today, Moscow’s Crimea is ‘breaking’,” Madyar concluded.
Recently, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have significantly intensified strikes on military, logistical, and energy facilities in the temporarily occupied Crimea, inflicting losses on Russian infrastructure and weakening the enemy’s ability to supply its troops on the peninsula.
This was stated by Robert Brovdi (Madyar), commander of the Ukrainian Armed Forces’ Unmanned Systems Forces.
On the night of June 21, the UAF’s Unmanned Systems Forces carried out strikes against a number of Russian occupation forces’ targets in the temporarily occupied Crimea, as well as in the occupied territories of the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions.
On June 20, Ukrainian defense forces struck the Tyumen Oil Refinery (“Antipinsky”) in Russia, located more than 2,000 km from the Ukrainian border.
Ukrainian drones attacked the Russian ferry “Panagia,” which, according to Russian sources, was being used to transport military cargo from the Krasnodar Krai to the temporarily occupied Crimea.
On the night of Saturday, June 21, drones attacked the port in Kerch in the temporarily occupied Crimea and the “Kavkaz” port in the Krasnodar Krai of the Russian Federation, resulting in fires at the facilities.
In the Dnipro direction, particularly on the temporarily occupied left bank of the Kherson region, Russian troops are increasingly facing supply and logistics challenges. Ukrainian defense forces have intensified pressure on key supply routes, further complicating the movement and delivery of resources to the occupying forces.
A Ukrainian drone attack on targets in the Moscow region on Thursday served as yet another example that, according to CNN, confirms the effectiveness of Ukraine’s strategy of overwhelming Russian air defense systems through the massive use of drones.
