Posted on 12/29/2023 10:43:16 PM PST by dennisw
Ukraine's attacks on annexed Crimea are chasing President Vladimir Putin's Black Sea Fleet away from the peninsula, and Kyiv's efforts in the region have been the most successful aspect of its counteroffensive, according to a former commander of U.S. Army Europe.
Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges spoke with Newsweek after Ukraine's airforce struck the eastern Crimean port of Feodosia on Tuesday with cruise missiles, damaging Russia's Novocherkassk landing ship and leaving large numbers of sailors unaccounted for.
It marked the latest strike by Ukraine on Crimea, the peninsula which Putin annexed in 2014 and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pledged to recapture. The region is Russia's central logistics hub for its forces in southern Ukraine. Russia's Black Sea Fleet has suffered extensive casualties throughout the war. Its flagship, Moskva, was attacked in April 2022. In September, Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, reportedly killing a number of leading officers and taking out a Russian submarine.
Experts close to Ukraine's Defense Ministry previously told Newsweek that Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to "demilitarize" the Black Sea Fleet as part of steps toward eventually liberating Crimea. In the past four months, Russia has lost 20 percent of its Black Sea fleet, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said shortly after the attack on the port of Feodosia.
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Those are some high losses.
With kryptonite?
Clown Czar Pootin will be dead this year from cancer.... It looks Pratschkovo will inherit.
eventually liberating Crimea
successful aspect of its counteroffensive
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LOL X 1000
>> Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to “demilitarize” the Black Sea Fleet as part of steps toward eventually liberating Crimea.
ROFLMAO! How’s that working out for you, propaganda organ?
Do It With Your Own Damn Blood And Treasure, Corrupt Ukraine.
HA HA HA!!! They CAN’T! They gotta have OUR treasure! And soon, if they get their way, our BLOOD.
To hell with corrupt Ukraine.
Henny Bodges, the three-star clown, weighs in.
The dude certainly knew a lot about no-handed polishing of the Halfrican's posterior...
The Russian navy was always weak. They had no way to protect themselves against modern threats in war. It has nothing to do with the current (failed) counteroffensive by Ukraine.
Who has got hypersonic missiles, and who hasn't got hypersonic missiles?
You'd be a fool to be in the Navy, now.
You’re fine if you’re in the submarine.
Once Ukraine sinks or destroys the whole fleet, there won’t be any excuse for Moscow to keep occupying Crimea anymore. And Putin’s War will have been for nothing.
Is the story false?
The Nimitz class weren’t designed as submarines...
I hope our navy was paying attention.
So, Happy New Year!, Chad.
I'll leave you to your minders.
The international symbol for you are about |
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“”Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to “demilitarize” the Black Sea Fleet””
Reminds me of Hussein declaring he was closing Gitmo in the interest of national security.
Tired Ukrainian soldiers demand to be replaced at the front
After almost two years of war, the Ukrainian army is exhausted, writes France info. “We don’t have enough soldiers and doctors. How much longer can we hold out? - Alexander is indignant from the Donbass front. “People… pic.twitter.com/1CeOjX3eHJ— S p r i n t e r (@Sprinter99800) December 30, 2023
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