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Suffering defeats in all directions on the frontlines, including in the Kursk region, the Armed Forces of Ukraine resumed daily attacks on the Crimean peninsula. On August 17, Russian forces repelled several attacks on the western coast of the peninsula.
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported that on the night of August 17, forces of the Russian Black Sea Fleet destroyed two unmanned boats of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Local sources shared the footage of the destruction of Ukrainian naval drones by Russian military helicopters in the Black Sea.
In the afternoon of August 17, the AFU attempted another attack on the peninsula. The footage showed that at least one more Ukrainian unmanned boat was destroyed near the shore.
Ukrainian attacks on the Crimean peninsula continue on a daily basis. On August 16, Ukrainian forces launched a combined attack on the peninsula. The Ukrainian military launched UAVs, unmanned boats and missiles in different regions of the peninsula. 12 missiles were destroyed on their way to the Crimean Bridge in the east of the peninsula. Another wave of strikes targeted the eastern shore. Helicopters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and air defense forces destroyed five unmanned boats and one UAV in the Yarylchag bay. Three more unmanned boats and four UAVs were destroyed near the city of Sevastopol. Three more Ukrainian boats reportedly retreated.
Teh recent resumption of massive attacks of the Crimean peninsula, as well as several failed attempts to launch landing operations on the Kinburn and Tendrov Spits in the Kherson region may signal the upcoming Ukrainian offensive operations on the southern frontlines. After the massive attack in the Kursk region turned into bloodshed and brought no strategic results to the Ukrainian military, the Kyiv regime is expected to launch new large scale provocations, including threatening Europe with nuclear disaster. LINK The long awaited F-16 fighters from NATO are yet to officially enter the battles. They are expected to begin their operation in September, when Kyiv may attempt another offensive in the southern Kherson and Zaporozhie region together with some large landing operations on the small coastal spits, trying to cut the communication between the Russian grouping on the mainland and Crimea.
