Are they fleeing or are they preparing for an attack?
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I thought they don't have any cruise missile capable ships left there? What would they attack? I doubt they'd try a landing.
I thought they don't have any [...] capable ships left there.
They have a few, along with about a half dozen cruise missile capable SSKs, but they are definitely starting to run out.
They just Station some 80mm mortars on the deck and shoot the coast for show.
Interesting - Novorossiysk was the furthest (from Ukraine) military port in the Black sea, and the ships were there because it's harder to attack them there compared to Crimea. Where else could they hide, run away to Mediterranean? :)
Or am I missing something?
The best guess I've read is that they will use landing ships to restore ferry service across the Kerch Strait.
That sounds like we're about to see a lot of new additions to the involuntary submarine club
One can only hope!
Aren't russien military ships barred from crossing the Bosporus?
Maybe they can leave, but not enter. Would be kind of funny if they'd abandon the black sea like that.
It's up to Turkey. But according to international treaties they can absolutely forbid them from leaving, iirc
*unless it's to return to their home port, but then they also cannot reenter. I think that most of the non black-sea fleet got out before the war or just was not in there at all
Turkey controls it, and Turkey does whatever they find useful that day. Right now, Russia sold out "allied" Armenia to Azerbaijan, and Turkey is a part of the regional muslim bloc. I have no idea of their agreements, but it's not like Turkey is anything close to being reliable partner to western countries
Turkey isn't a reliable partner for anyone.
they still have ships? someone should get on that
Sink the blyats.
This is a very dangerous exercise in the current drone environment. I guess this maybe an ECM test en force? If the cost-benefit analysis of risking that much tonnage has been met, russian logistics are hurting much, much worse than has been let on to.
"Looks like meat's back on the menu, boys!"