"There is no landing but there are" calibers ": how much Ukraine was able to weaken Russia in the Black Sea

British Defense Minister James Gippi believes that Ukraine has actually been defeated by the Black Sea Fleet of Russia, which is "forced to disperse on ports. " However, experts say that the enemy should not be underestimated - the opportunity to launch "calibra" remains. British Defense Minister James Gippi said Russia's Black Sea Fleet had been defeated and forced to disperse in ports where he could not influence Ukraine.

"The Russian submarine and the Russian ship were failed and the Black Sea Fleet's headquarters were also failed. Functional Defeat (Functional Defeat) of the Black Sea Fleet, and I emphasize that it is exact will influence Ukraine. It is a huge merit and as important progress as what happened in Kharkiv region last year, "Gippi explained. "I think the information is exaggerated. We really impose our tactics, our methods of fighting.

We are wringing war in this direction, which eliminates a serious risk for the Armed Forces personnel: we use drones, missiles for this to reduce the enemy's combat potential In particular, regarding landing ships and rocket launchers in the Black Sea. But to say that their fleet is destroyed, "says the focus of the naval expert Vladimir Zablotsky.

The Focus interlocutor notes that on the eve of a full -scale invasion, the Russian Federation transferred six large landing ships from the Northern and Baltic Fleet to the Black Sea. Seven more were part of the Black Sea Fleet. With their help it was planned to plant two brigades of the Marines on the Black Sea to isolate Ukraine. But after the Armed Forces destroyed Moscow rocket cruiser in 2022, and also caused a number of other blows that weakened the fleet, the potential decreased.

"They have no landing. The Brigade of the Black Sea Fleet was destroyed, three times replenished, but paratroopers that can be planted were left. In addition, the area where they wanted to plant tactical landing, covered with winged missiles, and they are afraid of the fate of the cruiser" Moscow " , - continues the expert. However, to say that the enemy "fell" early. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation still has the potential in the sea.

At least it remains the opportunity to launch "calibra. " carriers, and therefore Ukraine needs to cover up aircraft and develop a rocket -building program. Priority - rocket launchers, then landing ships. We weakened them: they pierced the maritime blockade from the southwestern Black Sea, raised flags on Boyko's towers, in fact we were devouring the chain from the island of Snake to Crimea. We really have many victories. And the occupier began to remove ships from Sevastopol to the Caucasus.

But it is not necessary to overestimate the consequences, "says Zablotsky. According to the expert, the Russian fleet continues to fulfill its tasks, namely to provide logistics of temporarily occupied Crimea. " The enemy's potential decreases. I saw statistics on one resource - out of 52 of our attacks using unmanned surface systems, eight were successful. This is a fairly high figure, considering that for drones, one hit of 10 is a great success.

Therefore, there will be no Black Sea Fleet - they will not have Crimea, because it can only be provided by the sea. All that remains is the opportunity to launch "calibers", - summarized the expert. We will remind, since the beginning of the full -scale invasion of the Russian Federation in Ukraine, in February 2022, the Black Sea Fleet of Russia consisted of 58 warships. Given patrol boats - 74. During the 19 months of the Armed Forces, about 14 vessels were damaged or damaged.

Among them are large landing ships "Saratov", "Novocherkask", "Orsk", "Caesar Kunikov", flagship rocket cruiser "Moscow"-one of the significant victories for Ukraine, Russian tug "Vasyl Beh" with the anti-aircraft missile complex "Thor" , Admiral Makarov frigate, Ivan Golubets, Minsk, diesel-electric submarine "Rostov-on-Don", two patrol ships of 22160 type "Vasyl Bykov" and the Russian rocket ship "Samum".