The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense observes a change in mood in the temporarily occupied Crimea — people are beginning to understand that the threat of military action on the territory of the peninsula is becoming real.
Vadym Skibitsky, the representative of Intelligence, said this in an interview with Radio Svoboda.
"It is gradually reaching the population of Crimea. We really monitor those issues related to such public sentiments. I will say one thing: first of all, they have changed, they have changed into those people who have relatives on the territory of our state — whether it is Kyiv or Kharkiv," Skibitskyi said.
According to him, the mood of those whose relatives are in the temporarily occupied territories, where villages and towns were simply destroyed, has changed.
"And the second is those relatives whose brothers, sons, fathers died... The threat of the war being transferred to the territory of Crimea is already becoming a reality for them," Skibitskyi added.
- On July 31, the Russian occupiers announced that they allegedly attacked the headquarters of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation in Sevastopol, which caused the cancellation of all festive events on the occasion of the Day of the Russian Navy. The Navy of Ukraine stated that in fact the occupiers are afraid of the Armed Forces and invented a reason to cancel the "holiday" "so as not to be ashamed in front of the whole world."