Ukrainian special forces landed in Russian-occupied Crimea and conducted a combat operation, Ukraine's military intelligence agency (HUR) announced via a video published online on Oct. 4. The video shows special forces using boats to land on a beach at night, where they unfurl a Ukrainian flag with the HUR emblem.
On 2 October, the Russian occupiers took convicted Nariman Dzhelialov (Nariman Celâl), First Deputy of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and activists Asan Akhtemov and Aziz Akhtemov out of Crimea and transferred them to prisons in the Russian Federation.