This morning the Russian Defense Ministry announced an attempted landing of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Crimea. The group was reportedly heading toward Cape Tarkhankut on a high-speed military boat and three jet skis. They were attacked by military aircraft, the ministry said.

Later, the Russian FSB announced that it had captured one of the Ukrainian soldiers who tried to land in Crimea that night, according to Russian media.

The FSB also published footage of an alleged interrogation of the captured Ukrainian soldier.

The man in the video says that his name is Lyubas Oleksandr Volodymyrovych, born in 1977, and that he is an ordinary soldier of the GUR unit, military unit 0336. He says the purpose of the landing was to "raise a flag and say that the GUR has entered Crimea". According to him, the group consisted of 16 people in total, moving to Crimea on boats and scooters from Odesa region.

Ukraine has not confirmed the new operation in Crimea.

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The GUR confirmed the landing in Crimea and published a video of the operation. The agency reported that the landing was successful, the soldiers landed and inflicted a "fire defeat" on the Russians.

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Special Forces of the Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, who landed on the western coast of Crimea, inflicted significant losses on the Russian occupiers' airborne troops during the battle. This was reported by the representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine Andriy Yusov.


"Several groups of the Ukrainian special forces of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine landed on the western coast of Crimea, engaged in combat with the superior forces of the occupiers and inflicted significant losses on the personnel. We are talking about the occupiers' airborne forces unit," he said.


Yusov also said that, unfortunately, there are losses among Ukrainian special forces, but "they are incommensurate with the losses of the Russians."


He also added that the special operation took place these days.


"The special forces have completed their task and withdrew," Yusov added.