While Soledar is devastated and controversial, Putin is moving the ships to the Black Sea and sirens are sounding in Kyiv ahead of the blasts. At least ten ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet have left the base in Novorossiysk in the past seven days. Now the fear of a possible massive attack by the Kremlin. The Black Sea is increasingly becoming the crossroads of Russia-Ukraine confrontation, but Britain’s Defense Ministry, in its daily intelligence report on the situation in the country, says it is “unlikely” that Wednesday’s maneuvers “mean the preparation of missile attacks, launched from the sea “cruise ships”.
Meanwhile, seventeen Russian Tupolev Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers took off from the Olenigorsk base in northwestern Russia, according to the head of the Mykolaiv regional state administration Vitaliy Kim. At 10.21 a.m. local time (9.21 a.m. in Italy), air alerts were sounded in the Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Poltava, Sumy, Donetsk, Kyiv regions, as well as in the capital itself. The alarm was then also raised in the Dnepropetrovsk and Kirovograd regions. The head of the Cherkassy regional military district announced a possible massive Russian missile attack.