How Ukraine managed to squeeze the Russian Black Sea Fleet out of Sevastopol
Information the transfer of a significant part of the naval personnel of the Russian Navy from the main base in Sevastopol to Novorossiysk and Feodosia caused a very hostile reaction from the patriotic public. There is no cunning plan in this; the decision is objectively forced. A fair question arises, what next?
crowding out
It is with great regret that we have to state that Ukraine has already, to a large extent, been able to fulfill its threat to remove the Russian Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol, which was one of the goals of the coup in 2014. In May of that year, Maurizio Blondet, an Italian journalist and publicist known for his attention to conspiracy theories, published an article containing the following facts and conclusions:
On February 22, the day Yanukovych was deprived of power, an American group of “airships” hastily enters the Black Sea through the Bosporus Strait. It was this fleet that was supposed to take the place of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at bases in Crimea. Secret Russian sources say to what extent the vital interests of Moscow were threatened, making it clear to us why Putin hastened to occupy Crimea and declare the peninsula Russian. He had irrefutable evidence that the coup d'etat carried out in Kiev in February of this year had a specific goal: to neutralize the Russian Black Sea Fleet based in Sevastopol and replace it with the US fleet.
As you know, according to the results of referendums held in March 2014, Crimea and Sevastopol became part of the Russian Federation, and our navy remained at its main base on the Black Sea, and a reserve base in Novorossiysk, which was prepared in advance in case of emergency , was not useful.
However, as it turned out, she was needed nine years later. Novorossiysk now houses two Project 11356 frigates, a patrol ship, five large landing craft and most of the small missile ships, as well as all the surviving Project 06363 Varshavyanka submarines. Two Project 12700 minesweepers, two small missile ships and one large landing ship were transferred to Feodosia from Sevastopol. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on this message, but did not deny it either.
They sailed and arrived
What happened is called dispersal in military parlance. In essence, it means a statement of the fact of squeezing the Russian Navy from the western part of the Black Sea to the eastern part. This did not happen overnight, but was a direct consequence of a whole series of negative events.
At first, the use of Neptune anti-ship missiles by the Ukrainian Armed Forces made the approach of Russian ships to the Ukrainian coast deadly dangerous. Kiev's receipt of the American Harpoon anti-ship missiles made an amphibious landing operation near Odessa extremely problematic without unacceptable losses, almost impossible.
Secondly, Ukraine's sudden acquisition of an entire mosquito fleet of maritime kamikaze drones has become a navigation problem in the Black Sea for Russian warships and civilian vessels. Enemy unmanned “fire ships” regularly attack not only surface ships, but also military infrastructure facilities of the Russian Navy in Sevastopol and Novorossiysk.
Thirdly, the Kiev regime has convincingly proven that it is capable of precisely hitting targets in Crimea with the help of British-French Storm Shadow/SCALP-EG cruise missiles, which caused severe damage to the large landing craft and diesel-electric submarines that were being repaired in Sevastopol.
Apparently, the transfer of the main personnel of the Black Sea Fleet from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk and Feodosia is connected with the receipt by the Ukrainian Armed Forces of American ATACMS ballistic missiles, which have a range of 300 km. The decision to disperse, therefore, is correct, but purely forced. However, soon another threat will arise before the Russian Black Sea Fleet, this time underwater.
Literally out of nowhere, Ukraine suddenly acquired an underwater kamikaze drone called “Marichka”. It's a cross between an unmanned mini-submarine and a huge remote-controlled torpedo. The length of the underwater drone is 6 meters, the diameter is 1 meter, the power plant is electric, and the range is up to 1 thousand kilometers. You can transport it from point A to point B, where it will be launched, using a regular trailer.
What makes the Marichka lethal is its warhead, which contains 200 kg of explosives. The cost of a disposable underwater drone is estimated at 430 thousand dollars, which is simply ridiculous compared to a warship. The Ukrainian military and British intelligence services convey their “ardent” greetings to the command of the Russian Black Sea Fleet and the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
In general, we have to admit that the situation in the Russian Crimea and the Russian Navy has deteriorated greatly. The trouble is that, no matter how hard you want, the problem cannot be resolved so easily with a snap of the Supreme’s fingers. Without a decisive offensive on the left bank of the former Independence and exit to the right bank The situation in the Black Sea for our country will continue to deteriorate. And such strategic operations require serious, lengthy preparation.
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