![]() ![]() In any event, the Cavell Group said, the “Saki attack was audacious and highly effective in both damaging Russian reinforcements and striking a significant psychological blow to morale amongst the Russian military and civilians.”Ī mushroom cloud of smoke can be seen in the distance, scaring beachgoers in Crimea last week. Western officials and analysts have since offered competing explanations about the cause. #The railway children band series#The explosions at Saki airbase jolted sunbathers lounging in beach-side cabanas last week, and marked the start of a series of mysterious incidents on the Ukrainian peninsula that threatens the jewel of President Vladimir Putin’s revanchist ambitions. What do the blasts mean for Putin’s ambitions? ![]() Melitopol has for months been a center of underground resistance to Russian occupation.Īs analysts speculate that there is a campaign to degrade Russia’s military capability in Crimea, Zelensky warned Ukrainians living in occupied areas on Tuesday to stay clear of Russian forces’ military facilities. Over the weekend, Ukrainian officials said that a railway bridge near the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, used by Russians to transport military equipment and weapons from occupied Crimea, was blown up by Ukrainian partisans. The attacks come at a time when nascent resistance movement in Russian occupied areas appears to have been carrying out acts of sabotage. Smoke rises from an electric substation in Crimea on Tuesday. Russian officials said the incident in Maiske had been the result of sabotage, but they did not specify the kind of sabotage, or whom they believed was responsible. In a speech following the incident, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war “began with Crimea and must end with Crimea – its liberation.”Īnother set of explosions were reported in Crimea this week, on August 16, this time at an ammunition depot in Maiske and at an airfield in Gvardeyskoe. What caused the explosions remains unclear. Russia claimed it was a result of an accident and Ukrainian officials have so far declined to confirm on the record that they were responsible. The August 9 incident at Saki airbase, which destroyed at least seven military aircraft, severely damaged the base and killed at least one person. The report describes the Saki airbase, which was rocked by explosions last Tuesday, as a hard but one time loss for Russian military infrastructure in the peninsula, with subsequent attacks as proof of Ukraine’s systematic military capability in targeting Crimea. The official requested anonymity because they were not authorized to share the information with the media. Interesting fact: He was the first MP, apart from the Speaker, to speak in the Commons on TV, in November 1989.Ukraine was behind three explosions rocked Russian military facilities in the annexed province of Crimea this past week, including an explosion at a Russian air base on the peninsula’s west coast that wrecked several airplanes, according to a Ukrainian government report circulated internally and shared with CNN by a Ukrainian official. He died in a car accident on Apwhen the Rover he was driving to London overturned on the M1 motorway at Watford. He served as an MEP and returned to the Commons as MP for Bradford South from 1987 to 1994.īradford-born Cryer was one of the founders of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway. He was MP for Keighley from 1974 until his defeat in 1983. Labour MP Bob Cryer, then chairman of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, played a guard in The Railway Children. Pictured are Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins, Gary Warren and Sally Thomsett with the dog. After being coaxed away the dog was watched by the local Police Sgt. The collie sat in the middle of the track as "The Railway Children" was being filmed at Haworth, Yorkshire. The cameras rolled, the scene was set and the action began when along came Shep. ![]()
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