It was an important ship to the shrinking Black Sea fleet. The secondary explosions went on for a long time so that ship was packed.
Novocherkassk was a small ship, damaged and removed from duty at sea a year and a half ago, with no expectation of a return to sea before the end of the war. Get serious.
Maryinka was a fortress and the civilian population was militarily irrelevant.
The Russians destroyed the Ukrainian armed forces and their infrastructure from a distance. As long as the Ukranians don't mind getting destroyed, the Russians will destroy them. The Ukrainians fortified the position because it had strategic significance. They fought to the death for two years because it had strategic significance. They lacked the means to stop or withstand the Russian artillery. They lost a strategic fortress because they cannot perform miracles.
Maryinka holds much more significance than a small, unusable ship.
You are one dependable and steadfast Bolshevik pig.
The Russians paid way more of a price for Maryinka than it was worth. Those losses are creating something of an undercurrent of resentment. The rebellion hasn’t appeared yet on largely state-directed Russian social media but it is there.
Do you know what’s trending on Russian social media? That is Russian-government directed social media ... It is how great Hamas is and how evil is Israel. They also talk up North Korea and Iran as great places.
361 feet ain’t no small ship in the Black Sea jack. And what about those secondary explosions? They were so impressive. They went on and on and on.