The Sea of Azov has been effectively cleared of Russian ships.
The Kerch ferry crossing has been shaken
The Russian naval logistics in Crimea, which should ensure consolidation on the temporarily occupied peninsula, have been effectively destroyed.
This is what the representative of the Ukrainian Navy Dmitry Pletenchuk says, writes Ukrinform.
“The quantitative indicator is important, but the qualitative indicator is more significant. I do not mean directly those ships that the Russian Federation lost, but directly those important stages that we can now consider passed. left Crimea – in the sense of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Another difficult stage is that the naval logistics of the Russians to provide the group in Crimea has been virtually destroyed,” he said. It is also important that the Sea of Azov has been virtually freed from the presence of Russian ships.
“In fact, this is far from all that we could do, but in any case, we are moving confidently, this year was quite difficult for us, but it was even more difficult for the Russians in the Azov-Black Sea region. And now they understand perfectly well that even the eastern coast of the Azov Sea, even Krasnodar. the region is no longer in such a confident security zone for the Russians, and we have proven this. And they are forced to take this into account, and of course, this significantly complicates their activities,” notes Pletenchuk.
The representative notes that this gives the Ukrainian Navy the opportunity to plan its work in the future taking these achievements into account, which is what they are doing.
- The occupiers are trying to protect their fuel depots in Crimea with boxes of sand and protective nets.
