Ukraine is cagey about the size of your navy. Which is not surprising. In conventional concepts it didn’t have it. But Kiev Rules of waves in Black Sea with its near an invisible fleet.
Three years after Launched by Vladimir Putin Full invasion of Ukraine, in which the flood of Kiev navine sank, RussiaThe fleet of the Black Sea is a cow and hides.
Which the Ministry of Defense in Great Britain described as “functionally inactive”, the sinking Russian leading vessel Moscow Ukrainian cruise missiles in 2022. A large blow showed Putin’s navy.
A little miracle that is Russian president Redeemed to break fire with Ukraine Focused on the invitation for suspension of struggles in the Black and the Azov Sea. He lost about 30-40 percent of his vessels here – and the rest went down to hide in Russian ports like Novorossiysk.
The crew of one of the few marine vessels in Ukraine, the renewed former cutter of the island in the US, is tired. They were up all night managed by a double pipe boat, shooting on Russian hollow drones that covered the sky over the Odes.
But, as the merchant ships sailed quietly to the port along the southern shore of Ukraine, the crew was confident. They did not see the Russian container for months.
“Maybe we have a little sea drone [from the Russian side] But not often. Every day or at least every other day we get air attacks though from the Crimea, “says Lieutenant Mykhailo.
“We don’t know the destination of each chess [drone] It’s a fly above your head – maybe we’re a goal, “he adds.
Russian skippers are probably more disturbed.
From 2022. Ukraine – with a naval number of about 11,000 staff – at least 20 Russian vessels sank; Among them cruisers, MoscowSeveral troop landing boats and numerous smaller boats.
These losses were all reduced to the new form of the Naval War pioned Ukraine Navy because, in addition to the island patrol of the ship, and handful of small ships in what is known as “mosquito”, Ukraine does not bother ships.
Former mine hunters of the Royal Navy transferred to the Ukrainian Navy are stuck in the UK because they cannot travel through the Fight Bosphor. Turkey banned military traffic through a strategic route from the full Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022. years.
Instead, the focus has been used with a long-range rocket, cruise missiles, underwater and surface drones – almost all domestic in Ukraine. They almost kicked out the Moscow black fleet from Moscow without work.
“We don’t need a fleet to destroy the Russian fleet. We have very smart guys who create sea drones. Sea unmanned numbers and rockets,” Skipper says.
Grain exports and other Ukraine products return to the pre-war level. They strangled regular Russian attacks on the sea. A brief agreement on leaving agricultural products to travel freely through the Black Sea collapsed in July 2023. years.
Ukrainian use of sea drones, in combination with almost unlimited nutritional data from British and other NATO aircraft, American spy satellites and interception signals, meant that Kiev regained access to their waterways.
And avoided battles “Meat grinder” characterized by the land war.
In the early days of renewed conflict in 2022, the skipper was in charge of a different vessel. His is where the military secret is now, but it is probably that it will be submerged. Probably in the engagement in which Mykhailo remembers, just in part.
From his radar he knew that two Russian missiles went on the road.
“One shot. Others … I’m not talking about this. But I really won’t lie, that’s scary when you know these missiles are coming,” says, standing on the bridge of survivors of patrol ship.
Views Commander Cedric DMYTRO Plettenchuk, a spokesman of the Ukrainian navy, explains how dominant over Russia was achieved after early failures.
“It happened in a few important phases,” he says. “This lasted a lot of time. The key milestone was destroying Moscow WARSHIP, which enabled us to release the northern part of the Black Sea.
“After this, the sea unpilotes changed the rules of the Games. The Russians had to leave the west and the central part of the Black Sea.”
Crimea, captured in 2014, once was the seat of the Soviet black fleet and after independence from the Soviet Union, the House of the Ukrainian Navy.
Putin illegally attached the peninsula in 2014. Years. 2022. His forces used as bridges further in the country and as the main driving base for drones and air attacks.
“The next phase would be striking to Crimean bases,” says Pletechuk. “The Russians had to withdraw war ships from the occupied port of Crimea. After strikes on ports in the eastern part of the Black Sea and the east coast, they also had to leave the ashy sea.
“From now on, the Russians must hide in the NOVOROSSIYSK marine base, where they must constantly move ships to avoid our strikes,” he adds.
At sea, Mykhailov ship is slightly armed with his cannons and four 50 mm heavy rifles. He is quickly and maneodrible and is mainly used to accompany civilian ships along trade routes in Ukraine.
A few days earlier, MJ PinarA cargo cargo ship for barbados and four crew was hit, all the Syrians, killed by the Russian rocket as they tied up in Odessa.
The Russian attack on civilian goals is tireless on land and sea.
It is still the reason why Ukrainians universally reject the complete recircciliaries with Russia if it cannot be applied. More than 80 percent of Ukraine believes that Russian ambitions do not stop with the territory of Moscow already occupied.
The success of Ukraine in the Black Sea was another inspiration that started on the day of one of the full invasion in Russia in 2022. years.
Then the Russian cruiser sent a radio message to Ukrainian troops that were kept by an isolated snake island from the southern coast that require to surrender or face bombing.
They answered, “Russian warship, go fuck yourself.” That warship was Moscow.