Partisans of the Atesh movement have revealed that Russian forces are quietly stripping military kit from a base in Sevastopol, Crimea. Agents filming the site found rows of empty storage compounds where armoured vehicles and artillery once stood. Only a handful of GAZ and KAMAZ trucks remain, and few soldiers linger on the nearby hilltops.
Local civilians, including elderly women, were seen sweeping mud from the asphalt as if expecting to reopen the base for peacetime use. Atesh suggests the withdrawals respond to acute shortages at the front, with equipment redirected to sustain Moscow’s faltering offensives in eastern Ukraine.
On 16 May, residents of Sevastopol and the village of Perevalnoye were startled by a series of powerful explosions. Drones from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) struck ammunition depots belonging to Russia’s 126th Coastal Defence Brigade near Perevalnoye, igniting fierce fires. Video footage shows towering flames and billowing smoke from the warehouses, prompting Russian authorities to close the Simferopol–Alushta highway amid fears of further blasts. Reports indicate that Russian personnel may have perished in the explosions.
Earlier, partisans uncovered that the 810th Marine Brigade’s barracks in Sevastopol had been emptied, hinting at precautionary measures against expected Ukrainian strikes. Hidden under camouflage nets, clusters of military hardware lay dormant, underscoring the occupiers’ anxiety of renewed SBU attacks.
An informed source confirms that Ukraine’s special services will continue to target legitimate military sites in occupied Crimea to erode Russia’s capacity to wage war.
