"There's no fuel in Crimea! And I want to tell you, there won't be any," Brovdi said, using coarse language in the original remarks. “We're cutting off the access routes — not the exit routes. We're not touching the Kerch Bridge. Let them get out through it. Let those millions leave through that little bridge back to their Russia. And travel somewhere far beyond the Urals — to live in peace.”
According to Brovdi, Ukraine's Defense Forces are deliberately concentrating their efforts on destroying the logistics routes used to supply Russian troop groupings on the occupied peninsula.
"We're targeting their logistics — of all kinds — that allow them to transport personnel and move ammunition, as well as military equipment, weapons and forces used against us in the south or launched at Ukraine from the Crimean peninsula," he added.
Brovdi stressed that Ukraine is, for the first time in history, creating the conditions for the effective isolation of an occupied peninsula without carrying out a large-scale ground military operation.
"We are creating conditions that make their presence there untenable, without losing a single Ukrainian soldier's life. We're doing this entirely remotely," he said.
On June 11, Brovdi told Reuters that Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces were preparing a large-scale campaign aimed at fully cutting off temporarily occupied Crimea's logistics links to Russia through massed drone strikes.
On July 3, Brovdi announced strikes on nine electrical substations in occupied Crimea, causing power outages in several settlements on the peninsula. Occupation authorities described the outages as network "malfunctions."
On July 5, Brovdi said that over 48 hours, 16 energy facilities had been struck across occupied southern territories, saying the "Crimean switch" was now in the "off" position.
On July 13, Brovdi said the Unmanned Systems Forces struck 11 energy facilities in Crimea and other occupied territories, along with five air defense elements. He said the energy targets included nine electrical substations, a strategic power transfer point on the Kuban-Crimea energy bridge, and a gas pumping station.
That same day, Brovdi said Ukrainian forces had struck 15 Russian vessels in the Sea of Azov — seven tankers, five dry cargo ships, a ferry and two tugboats.