Russia doesn't store nuclear weapons in Crimea - Ukraine's intelligence

The Defense Intelligence of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine says that there are no facilities in the occupied Crimea where the Russians deploy nuclear weapons. And no cases of transportation of these weapons have been recorded.

Last January, a representative of the Defence Intelligence of Ukraine, Andrii Chernyak, reported that the Russians were working in Crimea to restore a nuclear weapons depot on the peninsula.

According to current data, the Russians have partially restored the Feodosia-13 facility, and they currently use it as a storage facility for conventional ammunition.

Nuclear weapons available for Russia

The DIU says that tactical nuclear weapons can be carried by airplanes, helicopters, as well as submarines, ships, and boats deployed in Crimea.

Russian missile forces and artillery of the ground forces in Crimea have operational and tactical missiles of the Iskander missile brigades, as well as special artillery rounds and artillery units armed with 152-mm and 203-mm artillery systems and 240-mm mortars.

The Russian Aerospace Forces have nuclear munitions of the Air Force, such as warheads of air-launched cruise missiles, aircraft bombs, and naval mines, which can be carried by the attack and bombing aircraft of tactical aviation (Su-25SM3, Su-24M, Cy-34, MiG-31K).

Ukrainian intelligence adds that there may be separate air defense units, determined by the relevant orders, equipped with S-300 PM systems.

The Russian Navy has:

• Navy nuclear warheads and warheads of sea-launched missiles and coastal missile systems;
• warheads of anti-ship and anti-submarine missiles;
• warheads of torpedoes and torpedo-rocket missiles;
• anchor and bottom mines;
• artillery shells of coastal artillery;
• depth charges and dive bombs.

At the same time, the DIU did not record any additional movements of nuclear weapons launchers to the occupied peninsula to use tactical nuclear weapons.