With Crimea separated from the rest of Ukraine by swamps and open water, and with as much river and ocean waterfront Ukraine has, they have always needed a naval commando force and frogmen. The Navy Seals aren't too keen on inviting outsiders into their training rotations to share shop secrets, although the British Special Boat Squadrons, Germany's Kommando Spezialkräfte Marine Kampfschwimmerz and Israel's Shayetet-13 are some exceptions to that rule. These Ukrainian frogmen have been spending time in Germany being tutored by the Kampfschwimmers and are rumored to be getting further tutoring in country out of the Odessa main port, primarily, conducting anti-infiltration and anti-sabotage security patrols and drills, and simultaneously honing their skills to do exactly that themselves at Sevastopol and other Crimean targets. The Holy Grail being somehow getting at the pylons holding up the Kerch Straight Bridge and blowing those. Rumor has it that the entire reason Russia got paranoid with the idea of an amphibious invasion of the Crimean coast and spent all that time and effort digging trenches on the beaches and deploying troops up and down that coast is because of all the midnight raids these frogmen have been executing. They are all supposedly small events that have escaped the notice of the press. But Russia seems to be taking them VERY seriously. Here we see them with some basic M4 carbines and Draeger rebreathers.
More Bren 2s with riverine raiders
Lots of probing attacks and constantly harassing the swamp-stationed Russians along the Dnipro River. Nothing mows the grass quite like a .50
Another Ruger Precision Rifle covering the plains of Zaporizhzhia.
Russian remotely piloted ground robot, armed with a 7.62x54R belt-fed PKT vehicle gun undergoing trials. No reports yet of these being deployed to Ukraine, but no doubt that is coming.
