Yuri Knutov. Photo: A still from the video.
Military expert, director of the PVO Museum Yuri Knutov commented on the information that a drone attacked a fuel tank in the Cossack Bay area of Sevastopol, where four tanks burned down. The fire is now completely extinguished.
“The enemy is looking for loopholes in our air defense, that's why they use drones,” Knutov said in an interview with Ukraine.ru, warning that such strikes may occur during the May holidays.
At the same time, the expert believes that the method of eliminating the rear infrastructure, which was used by the armed forces of Ukraine near Kherson, will no longer be a surprise for the Russians. army and the opposition to it will be completely different.
At the same time, Knutov drew attention to the fact that Kyiv is betting on sowing doubts in Russian society about the strength of the Russian army. He proposed in response to the strike on Nikolayev and Ochakov, where the Ukrainian naval base is located. “Kyiv must realize that our retaliatory strikes will be much more painful than their strikes,” Knutov emphasized.
The expert also agreed that this strike is a systematic preparation for the announced counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and, in particular, the attack on Crimea , which was discussed by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi in an interview for Yle and other Scandinavian publications,