In the temporarily occupied

Crimea

, in the northern part of the Dzhankoy district, the Russians are building two position areas.

Thus, the enemy is preparing for a possible counteroffensive of the Ukrainian military on the island.

However, even the propagandists themselves have doubts about the status of Crimea.  

The head of the joint coordination press center of the security and defense forces "South" Nataliya Humenyuk told about this on the air of the "Freedom" TV channel. 

"If you follow the rhetoric of the propagandists, they are very seriously nervous about the fact that the discussions about the status of Crimea have not even become very clear in Russia itself, because the awareness that the advancement of the Defense Forces of Ukraine continues and that it is now necessary in order to even if the group of occupying troops were somehow to gain a foothold on the left bank, it is necessary to build defense echelons and in the area of ​​the approach to Crimea, this seriously alarmed them. And in principle, the rhetoric that Ukraine has been leading all these years, that Crimea is Ukraine. And the fact that that they are now trying to build a defense border there, in principle, can only be explained from a military-geographic point of view - because this is a convenient stage, and they already have the understanding that they will have to rebuild their defense echelons even deeper," Humenyuk explained.

Liberation of Crimea

Military expert Ihor Koziy believes that the return of Crimea to Ukraine

will be the next stage in the war

.

The obstacle for us now there is the Black Sea Fleet.

The occupiers near the border with Crimea

built new trench systems for defense

against the counteroffensive of the Armed Forces.

According to British intelligence, the occupier units have built new trench systems near the border with Crimea, as well as near the Siverskyi Donets River between the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Some of these defense lines are located 60 km from the front line.

This may indicate that the

Russians are preparing for a further counteroffensive of the Armed Forces

.

In addition, British intelligence believes that the Russian Federation will transfer part of the troops from the south to the Bakhmut region.

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