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🔴 Support via Online Store: 🟠 Support via Patreon: 🔵 Support via YouTube Sponsorship: 🔵 Support via Thanks button donation under the video (next to “like“ and “share“) 🟡 Support via 1-time donation: ⚠️ Watch RFU in 18 languages: @RFU/channels I am Ukrainian. My country has been invaded by Russia. In this video I will tell you what happened on the five hundred fourteenth day of the war. Day 514: Jul 22 Today the biggest news comes from Crimea. After a series of broad drone attacks on the peninsula, Ukrainians finally found a temporary weakness in the Russian air space. It looks like in the light of attacks on the bridges and the Black Sea Fleet, Russian forces concentrated their air defense in the northern part of Crimea to protect the bridges and in the southern part of Crimea to protect the fleet. That is why yesterday, Ukrainian drones managed to penetrate Russian air space by dozens of kilometers and reach simultaneously 3 Russian airfields in the deep rear. Today in the morning, huge explosions happened in the Krasnohrardiysky district. Local residents reported hearing secondary detonations in the aftermath of the strike. Later it became clear that Ukrainians successfully struck multiple targets at once. The first target of Ukrainian forces became one of the biggest airfields in Crimea, where Ukrainians managed to destroy a huge ammunition depot. The second target of Ukrainian forces became the oil depot in Oktyabrskoye. Continuous secondary detonations just 2.5 km from the town combined with huge fires made local authorities implement drastic measures, and it was decided to evacuate everyone in a 5 km radius. On top of that, since the settlement was located right on one of the main railways, the railroad movement was stopped. Later, due to the heightened threat of the continuation of the strikes, Russians closed the Kerch Bridge as well, meaning that absolutely all main supply lines were out of use today. By the way, many people questioned the decision to prioritize the destruction of the road bridge in Kerch, over the railroad. However, apart from the fact that it is more fragile, in the short term, it created significant problems for the Russians in Zaporizhzhia. Even though Putin stated that the road on the Kerch Bridge is not used by the military, simultaneously, the Head of the Crimean Administration urged all people not to use the Kerch Bridge so that military supplies could move without hurdles. So, by taking out the road bridge, almost all Crimean traffic necessarily headed through Zaporizhzhia, creating massive traffic jams and effectively blocking Russian supplies to the front basically the same day. In fact, Ukrainian fighters reported that the shortages started to kick in the day before yesterday, as Russians started returning fire less frequently and less intensely. This also meant that more Russian operations and counterattacks were conducted with less or no artillery support, turning many areas of secondary value from relatively safe to very dangerous. And this is exactly when many Russian war correspondents started rapidly dying. Today a Russian war correspondent Rostislav Zhyravlev who was reporting on how Russian drones are destroying Ukrainian artillery, got under Ukrainian artillery fire together with his team. All of them were still located somewhere on the Russian base and were preparing to get closer to the contact line. He was the only one who did not survive the strike. Yesterday it was confirmed that a famous military blogger and war correspondent, “Misha na Donbase,” got under artillery fire somewhere hear Krasnohorivka and died as well. Ukrainian sources say that he died in the aftermath of a cluster shell explosion, while Russian sources say that he died in the aftermath of a successful Ukrainian counterattack. Today a Russian MP Aleksandr Boroday also got under Ukrainian artillery fire during his PR visit to Bakhmut. There was graphic footage that confirmed that he was wounded but survived. Back in 2014, Boroday was one of the commanders of the DPR militia, helping Girkin to facilitate the secession of Ukraine. By the way, yesterday Russian authorities unexpectedly showed up at Girkin’s house and arrested him. Later he was charged with extremism, which threatens imprisonment for a term of 5 to 20 years. Girkin is the founder of the Club of Angry Patriots, and he openly and consistently criticized Putin and the Russian Ministry of Defense. Girkin was especially vocal after the Wagner coup, and called for the removal of Putin and the Defense Minister for their ineptitude, and the execution of Prigozhin for making the coup.
