Posted on 03/05/2024 7:07:44 PM PST by Timber Rattler
Ukraine said Tuesday it had sunk a Russian patrol ship off the coast of occupied Crimea, claiming another victory over the Kremlin's forces in the hotly contested waters of the Black Sea.
Moscow did not confirm the claim, which would represent the latest blow to its naval power as Kyiv strikes targets deep behind the war's front lines, even as its army suffers setbacks on the battlefield.
Ukraine’s military intelligence agency said that it had used high-tech sea drones in an overnight attack on the large patrol ship Sergey Kotov near the Kerch Strait, which separates the annexed peninsula’s eastern coast from mainland Russia.
The agency published a video purporting to show the ship being blown up and going up in flames. It did not say anything about the fate of the ship’s crew.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Launched in 2022... paint wasn’t even dry.... :)
“Technically, when the Moskva was sunk and the Makarov badly damaged, the Black Sea Fleet lost its only two command-capable ships and became the Black Sea Flotilla. With further losses including most of its air arm, several large landing ships and a submarine, the Black Sea Flotilla technically because the Black Sea Squadron.
If you are a Russian mother with a son in the Black Sea Squadron, pray for him, but don’t expect him home for Christmas.”
https://www.newsweek.com/ukraine-sinking-russian-warship-sparks-warning-uk-official-1876191
Our defenses are outdated. We are firing missiles that costs millions of dollars to destroy drones that are dirt cheap. Our carriers are sitting duck. We shouldn’t be building anymore. Time to adapt.
Whew!!! I guess all these countless Ukraine victories means we can stop sending them billions.
ZEEPER FOLLIES PINGLIST!"
... to be added to the best entertainment since Paul Shanklin parodies, ping me bro.
Ping!
So I guess you DO support the GINSCA then?
*GINSCA
(Globo-Islamo-NeoSoviet-Communist-Alliance)
Indeed, communist North Korea is sending millions of shells to Russia. Communist China has recently made a free trade agreement with Russia. The Islamic Sate of Iran in shipping thousands of kamikaze drones to Russia. Etc, etc...
All the usual suspects, America’s traditional enemies.
It’s indeed a proven globalist network of NeoSoviets, Islamists, and communists.
Are you ever denouncing them?
Our Western navies lost the Battle of the Red Sea to a country without a navy.
When are you going to denounce Ol' Rumpleforeskin's support for the Piano Puppet?
The entire Russian Black Sea fleet will soon be a fleet of “submarines”...
Every week now Russia loses a big vessel.
And soon, soon... the Kerch Bridge will be a submarine as well.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/04/uk-urges-germany-to-give-long-range-missiles-to-kyiv-despite-luftwaffe-leak
As they say in Texas... YeeeHaaaaaa!
Russia gonna be shedding a lot more tears this year as more warships are sunk
Good riddance!
*GINSCA
(Globo-Islamo-NeoSoviet-Communist-Alliance)
That is you.
how many american/brit/nato attacks is Russia willing to accept ?
Full of Shiite
That is you
Exactly.
Ukraine doesn’t have hi-tech sh*t unless WE give it to them. That’s one of the reasons Germany is sh*tting sausages right now.
Nato is growing reckless over Ukraine – and Russia’s German military leak proves it
Western Europe has no conceivable interest in escalating the Ukraine war through a long-range missile exchange. While it should sustain its logistical support for Ukrainian forces, it has no strategic interest in Kyiv’s desire to drive Russia out of the majority Russian-speaking areas of Crimea or Donbas. It has every interest in assiduously seeking an early settlement and starting the rebuilding of Ukraine.
As for the west’s “soft power” sanctions on Russia, they have failed miserably, disrupting the global trading economy in the process. Sanctions may be beloved of western diplomats and thinktanks. They may even hurt someone – not least Britain’s energy users – but they have not devastated the Russian economy or changed Putin’s mind. This year Russia’s growth rate is expected to exceed Britain’s.
The crass ineptitude of a quarter of a century of western military interventions should have taught us some lessons. Apparently not.
Krynky - wha happen?
Are the Russians going to send back the dead Ukie Marines from Tendrivsʹka Kosa?
Are the Russians towing one of the M1 Abrams to the Kubinka Tank Museum as we type?
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