This Thursday morning, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva had suggested that Ukraine cede the Crimean peninsula to Russia to end the war, believing that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “cannot want everything”. Without hesitation, Ukraine flatly refused this suggestion: “There is no legal, political or moral reason to give up even one centimeter of Ukrainian territory“, wrote on Facebook the spokesman for Ukrainian diplomacy, Oleg Nikolenko.
Thus, Ukraine continues to fight to recover Crimea from Russian hands, which makes the Kremlin fear an offensive from kyiv.
This is how the Russian army began to prepare the peninsula for a Ukrainian attack, as evidenced by satellite images broadcast by the Washington Post and taken by the American company Maxar.
In these photos, we can clearly see the trenches dug by the sea, extending for several kilometers on the beach of Vitino.
According to Maxar, the Russians would also go at a hallucinating speed thanks to a machine dating from the Soviet era capable of digging up to 800 meters of trenches per hour.
Footage also showed trenches and ditches stretching around Medvedivka, a small town on the side of a road linking Crimea with mainland Ukraine.
Does Russia fear a large-scale Ukrainian counter-offensive in Crimea? These pictures seem to prove it
Moreover, the job offers currently online in Russia testify to this urgent need to dig and build: Russian workers are sought, for a salary of 90 euros per day.
Russia is therefore preparing frantically for the Battle of Crimea, without anyone knowing what is going on on the Ukrainian side.