Russian management in Crimea is panicking following Ukraine’s precision strike on Moscow’s Black Sea headquarters, a former Ukrainian parliamentary advisor advised Daily Express US.

Mykola Volkivskyi claimed that the strike - which Ukraine says killed 34 Russian officers - had despatched shockwaves by Russia-backed management in Crimea.

Referring to the Ukrainian operation, he stated: “[Ukraine] cannot disclose all the details of the special operation called ‘Crab Trap’ that took place in Sevastopol, but it is clear that at the time of the attack, the Russians were holding a meeting of the Russian Navy's senior staff at this headquarters.

He said the information was passed to Ukraine’s Air Force which carried out the apparently successful attack - video from the scene shows a direct hit by a UK-Franco Storm Shadow missile which leveled part of the structure.

Mr Volkivskyi added: “Panic is now spreading among the occupation authorities in Sevastopol. There is an emergency search for shelters and basements.”

Reports by Russian sources on social media recommended an absence of operational shelters within the metropolis which is nicely inside vary of Ukrainian bombs.

In addition, the success of the operation seems to have impressed confidence amongst Western army thinkers.

Mr Volkivskyi stated: “During a personal conversation with the former commander of NATO's forces in Europe, I received information that the de-occupation of Crimea is only a matter of time. Ukraine, with the support of its allies, will confidently move in this direction.”

Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014 after the Peninsula was invaded by Vladimir Putin’s so-called little inexperienced males.

However, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to retake the territory and Kyiv’s army has upped strikes within the area.

In addition to the devastating assault on Russia’s Black Sea fleet headquarters, Sevastopol’s dry dock was broken in a strike that additionally crippled a Kilo-class Russian submarine.

In addition, Vladimir Putin’s pet venture, the Kerch Strait Bridge, has been focused quite a few occasions by Ukraine and was severely broken by what's believed to have been a truck bomb final yr.

Now, Ukraine’s systematic concentrating on of Russia’s air defences within the area seems to have opened up the sky for extra Ukrainian strikes.

Kyiv’s forces are more likely to proceed to place stress on the peninsula whereas trying elsewhere within the nation to realize a significant breakthrough in a hard-fought counteroffensive which, if profitable, may minimize the land bridge to Crimea created by Russia’s invasion.

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