The first information bulletin "White Book 2021", published on the website of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SZR) of Ukraine, informs about it. 

The White Book presents the Service’s assessment of the main external threats to Ukraine’s national security, which pays special attention to aggression from Russia.

Russia is transforming Crimea into one large military base comprehensively, considering all necessary factors, including in the social dimension. The population structure of the peninsula continues to change. “Crimean Tatars, as a disloyal part of the population, are purposefully pushed to mainland Ukraine or Turkey, by manipulating the subsidy policy of the military and their families turn into a social support of the occupying power", - the newsletter says.

According to the Service, almost all Soviet anti-aircraft missile systems capable of firing missiles with a nuclear warhead are involved in Crimea. Besides, they are being rearmed - Russia has put new missile systems on combat duty. The complexes control most of the Black Sea, and surface-to-surface missiles completely cover it.

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There are also military planes and missile ships stationed on the peninsula which can carry charges with a nuclear warhead.

Russia's plans to develop and use "tactical nuclear weapons", in modern conditions allow the Kremlin to increase the pressure on the international community, as well as aggressively dominate the Black Sea, Mediterranean and European theatres of operations. This threatens the security and national interests of Ukraine, as well as its strategic partners", - Ukrainian intelligence said.

Besides, the total number of Russian military contingent on the peninsula is 32.5 thousand people. According to SZR, the main goal is to transform the Russian Federation into a dominant state in the Black Sea region.

"Turbulence in the post-Soviet space has already become a catalyst for a deep institutional crisis of integration" Eurasian "formats under the auspices of the Russian Federation (CSTO, EAEU, CIS, etc.). This makes it impossible for the Kremlin to implement ambitious geopolitical projects to revive "the Soviet Union 2.0" or in some other form", - such conclusion was made from the analysis by the Ukrainian spies.

What is known

• NATO is concerned about the increase in the number of Russian troops in the occupied Crimea.
• Due to Russia's aggression in the Black Sea, NATO will increase its support for Ukraine and Georgia.
• Enlargement and partnership with NATO are the key to military security against Russian aggression, the expert said.
• The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepared a secret operation to return Crimea, during which the most capable units of the airborne troops were planned to be transferred to the peninsula.
• The State Bureau of Investigation established the reasons and conditions for the occupation of Crimea.
• Ukrainian counterintelligence reported on Russia's attempts to increase its influence long before the aggression in 2014, during the presidencies of Viktor Yushchenko and Viktor Yanukovych.