{"id":171994,"date":"2023-03-07T15:40:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=171994"},"modified":"2023-03-07T15:40:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T15:40:39","slug":"russia-destroys-secret-island-base-where-brit-soldiers-taught-ukraines-navy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/russia-destroys-secret-island-base-where-brit-soldiers-taught-ukraines-navy\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia ‘destroys secret island base where Brit soldiers taught Ukraine’s navy’"},"content":{"rendered":"

A training base on a secretive island housing British soldiers teaching Ukrainian army men has been destroyed, Russia has claimed. <\/p>\n

The fort island of Pervomaisky \u2013 also known as Maisky Island \u2013 is big enough just to fit an army training base, and it is where many UK soldiers were teaching Ukrainian special forces since Vladimir Putin first ordered his Russian troops to invade the country.<\/p>\n

It formerly belong to Russia, having been built in 1895, but was bombed by the Lutfwaffe in 1941.<\/p>\n

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It is not know if, or how many British troops were still at the site when it was bombed, but Russian military expert Vasily Dandykin has told pro-Putin news outlet Moskovskij Komsomolets that it has now been destroyed.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cThere was a de facto British base there, where saboteurs-submarines were trained.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey invested in it, taught.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring Soviet times, the legendary separate brigade of the GRU special forces was located on Maisky Island, on the basis of which combat swimmers were trained.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt so happened that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, this base, the strongest school of saboteurs and submariners, was transferred to the Ukrainian Navy.<\/p>\n

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