 Crimea is being carefully prepared for Ukraine's counter-offensive. The Russian appointed head of Crimea, Sergei Aksyanov, boasted of the modern echelon defense of the Russian army on the annexed peninsula and declared that the counter-offensive of Ukraine does not frighten the occupiers. About the Ukrainian offensive on Crimea, which everyone and their mother is talking and writing about so much nowadays. You cannot underestimate the enemy, but you can definitely say that we are ready for this and there will be no catastrophe. I believe that the decision to build defense structures in Crimea and on the approaches to the peninsula was correct and justified. This does not mean that they will necessarily be used for their intended purpose. We were obliged to prepare for any development of events and we did it, he said. According to Aksyanov, the armed forces of the Russian Federation built a modern deeply echelon defense, a lot has been done and continues to be done to provide the Russian military with everything necessary. The forces are more than enough, said the Kremlin-backed head of occupied Crimea. Before this, the Washington Post, with reference to Maxar satellite images, reported that Russia started to prepare the annexed Crimea for a Ukrainian counter-offensive with the occupiers building a complete web of trenches and fortifications on the peninsula in just a few weeks.