Due to outstanding salary payments, Russian officers allegedly passed on confidential information about Moscow’s Black Sea Fleet to a Ukrainian partisan movement.
The Kyiv Post reported that based on this information, Ukrainian intelligence prepared the missile attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet on the occupied Crimean peninsula. The attack on the headquarters of the Russian Black Sea Fleet last Friday also killed the head of the fleet, Viktor Sokolov, according to information from Kyiv, as the German news platform n-tv.de communicated.
This information comes from a party to the conflict and has not yet been independently verified / confirmed. For this reason, the report must be evaluated with reservations. In war, it can be advantageous for parties to make false statements about the course of the conflict in order to strengthen their own position or weaken the position of the opponent.
Image: Kremlin.ru, Vladimir Putin (24.06.2023), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (image size modified)
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