Zelenskyy addresses "our people" in Ukraine's occupied territories following explosions in Crimea

UKRAINSKA PRAVDA – TUESDAY, 16 AUGUST 2022, 22:14

Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, called on civilian residents of Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine to avoid approaching [Russian] military facilities and ammunition points.

Source: President Zelenskyy's video address

Quote from Zelenskyy: "Every day and every night we see new reports of explosions in the territories temporarily occupied by the [Russian forces]. I am now asking all our people in Crimea, in other parts of southern Ukraine, in the occupied territories of Donbas, in Kharkiv Oblast to be very careful. Please do not approach the military facilities of the Russian army, or the areas where they store ammunition and equipment, or where their headquarters are located.

The reasons for the explosions in the occupied territory can be different, very different. For example, to quote the occupiers, 'dim-wittedness'.

But they all have the same goal: destroying the occupiers’ logistics, their ammunition, their military and other equipment, and their command posts saves the lives of our people. The fewer opportunities the occupiers have to do evil and kill Ukrainians, the sooner we will be able to liberate our land and end this war. And these days the size of the queue to cross the bridge in order to leave Crimea for Russia proves that the absolute majority of citizens of the terrorist state [i.e., Russia - ed.] already understand – or at least, can feel – that they don’t belong in Crimea."

Background: A new record of daily traffic was observed on Crimean Bridge in the occupied peninsula on 16 August. On 15 August, 38,297 cars moved both ways.

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