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Leaked Documents Reveal Secret Russian Evacuation Plans for Black Sea Fleet Families in Crimea
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Russian occupation authorities in temporarily occupied Crimea are compiling evacuation lists for the families of Black Sea Fleet personnel and civilian employees.
An urgent telegram sent by Admiral Sergei Pinchuk, commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and head of the Sevastopol Territorial Garrison, ordered military units to submit these lists by July 10.
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The directive applies to all military units and organizations within the Sevastopol garrison. Command officials were instructed to prioritize the collection of data for families and civilian staff to prepare for potential evacuation measures.
This is the first documented instance of such orders being issued by the command in Sevastopol, the primary naval base for the Russian Black Sea Fleet during Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
The order has been designated with a high priority status, requiring immediate execution ahead of standard military communications. While the order specifically covers the Sevastopol garrison, it remains unclear if similar measures are being implemented across other military installations on the peninsula.
The directive follows continuous logistical pressures, including fuel challenges and systemic damage to air defense networks and supply lines across temporarily occupied Crimea.
The evacuation order applies to a wide range of Russian military assets and administrative bodies in the area. These include units of the 4th Air Force and Air Defense Army, the 166th Naval Engineering Service Division, and the 1127th Rocket and Artillery Armament Repair Plant.
It also covers the 13th Ship Repair Yard, multiple regional military recruitment offices, naval training centers, higher naval education academies, and garrison housing administrations.
Additionally, medical infrastructure, including the 1472nd Naval Clinical Hospital and its branches, along with local military sanatoriums, forensic laboratories, and the naval newspaper Flag Rodiny, are required to submit their personnel data.
Local infrastructure facilities such as the 102nd Electric Grid Enterprise, the regional road management office, the Patriot military park, and branches of the Central Naval Museum are also included in the directive.
The Ukrainian Defense Forces struck a Russian naval traffic control center in temporarily occupied Sevastopol along with multiple other military targets during operations on April 21 and overnight into April 22, 2026.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the strikes targeted the "Streletskyi" command facility, which was responsible for coordinating the movement of Russian Black Sea Fleet vessels in Crimea. The General Staff stated that Ukrainian forces carried out strikes on a number of important objects of the Russian aggressor during the operation, though no official damage assessment or casualty figures were released at that time.
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