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The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) claims to detain supposed "spies" almost daily in temporarily occupied Crimea following a wave of attacks on military facilities located on the peninsula. Source: Krym.

"Unknown saboteurs" attacked military facilities in Russia's Moscow and Kaluga oblasts overnight on Sept. 24, Ukraine's military intelligence agency reported.

The construction of military facilities by Russia in Petrozavodsk and Alakurtti, both near the Finnish border, were reported by the Finnish publication Yle on Sept. 10, with experts and the Minister of Defense affirming however that there is presently no threat to Helsinki.

The purpose of Ukraine’s current drone strikes on Russia is to weaken the enemy's combat potential, Vadym Skibitsky, a representative of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate or HUR said on Ukrainian national television on Sept. 9.

Ukraine's Defence intelligence has said it has a list of Russian strategic facilities to be destroyed and is methodically working on it. Source: Vadym Skibitskyi, representative of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence, on the air of the joint national 24/7 newscast Quote: "We are working methodically, identifying the most critical targets and the most critical facilities for the Russian Federation itself.

The new Ukrainian-made missile will hit targets from 620 to 930 miles within Russian territory, a top security official said.

Russian military bloggers and propagandists repeatedly criticize Russian forces "for their inability to defend Russian territory and military facilities, while simultaneously criticizing recent Russian Defense Ministry censorship efforts," the Institute for the Study of War said in its Aug. 30 report.

The shaping of the battlespace in Russian-occupied Crimea is taking longer than anticipated due to shortages of ammunition, retired Ukrainian Air Force Colonel Roman Svitan said on Radio NV on Aug. 23.

The so-called "authorities" of temporarily occupied Crimea are initiating tougher penalties at federal level for sharing footage of military facilities, air defence systems and the results of Ukrainian strikes on the Russian invaders on the peninsula.

A woman has been detained under suspicion of spying for the Russian military, Zhytomyr Oblast Prosecutor's Office reported on Aug. 9. The woman is believed to have cooperated with Russian military intelligence by giving them information that was used to launch missile strikes.