Paranoid Putin frantically moves air defences to guard beloved £3bn Crimean Bridge as Ukraine blitzes TWO airfields
PARANOID Vladimir Putin is urgently relocating his air defences to guard his £3 billion Crimean Bridge after Ukraine blitzed two airfields.
Russian resistance movement ATESH has highlighted a move to “massively transfer equipment” towards the crossing.
The anti-Putin group said: “The Russians are actively relocating surviving air defence installations, aviation, radar stations and all military facilities from the western part of Crimea.
“Oil storage facilities are already empty, and it is virtually impossible for even the local population to get fuel.”
The crossing is vital to Mad Vlad's weakening grip on the Crimean peninsula, which he grabbed from Ukraine in 2014.
If true, he appears to be leaving the west of Crimea exposed to more Ukrainian strikes which have taken out multiple air defence systems.
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This comes as Ukraine has again hit Saki military airfield in Crimea, controlled by the Russians, with US-supplied ATACMS missiles.
Two Russian servicemen were wounded as ammunition stocks were destroyed, triggering a major fire.
The attack hit an air defence site at Shelkovichnoye, destroying a key radar facility.
One Russian source indicated the losses were greater in the Crimean strikes.
“Everlasting memory,” said Fighterbomber Telegram channel.
Two blasts rang out on the 12-mile crossing in the early hours of the day as hordes of motorists travelled across it.
Dramatic images showed mangled and contorted metal barriers on the warped roadway, which is a major supply route for Putin's troops fighting in Ukraine.
In October 2022, a bomb concealed in a truck exploded on the bridge, causing major damage.
Yet Russia has been able to continue using the crossing, which Ukraine has repeatedly vowed to destroy it.