'Crimea now cannot be called a safe haven,' a former Ukrainian intelligence agent told Newsweek after a week of high-profile attacks.
's plane sent a message of Putin's continued ruthless control, but Ukrainian success in Crimea sends a very different signal."Crimea now cannot be called a safe haven," Ivan Stupak—a former officer in the Security Service of Ukraine and now an adviser to the Ukrainian parliament's national security, defense and intelligence committee—told"This week is amazing, really amazing," Stupak, who also works with the Ukrainian Institute for the Future, said.
"All goals and tasks have been completed. At the end of the special operation, the Ukrainian defenders left the scene without casualties." The statement was posted with a video showing a small motorboat moving through water at night near a coastline, a Ukrainian flag being raised on an unidentified building in an unknown location, and an apparent firefight with unknown enemies.
This week's attacks in Crimea have focused on Cape Tarkhankut, which protrudes into the Black Sea from the northwestern coast of the peninsula and offers a natural defensive position for the bay of Sevastopol and the RussianStupak said the Cape is home to"a number of different radar systems, long-range systems, medium-range systems, anti-aircraft systems like the S-400, S-300, and so on.
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