Zelensky Is Chasing Putin's Black Sea Fleet Out of Crimea

MSN ^ | Isabel van Brugen

[dennisw]

Ukraine's attacks on annexed Crimea are chasing President Vladimir Putin's Black Sea Fleet away from the peninsula, and Kyiv's efforts in the region have been the most successful aspect of its counteroffensive, according to a former commander of U.S. Army Europe.

Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges spoke with Newsweek after Ukraine's airforce struck the eastern Crimean port of Feodosia on Tuesday with cruise missiles, damaging Russia's Novocherkassk landing ship and leaving large numbers of sailors unaccounted for.

It marked the latest strike by Ukraine on Crimea, the peninsula which Putin annexed in 2014 and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pledged to recapture. The region is Russia's central logistics hub for its forces in southern Ukraine. Russia's Black Sea Fleet has suffered extensive casualties throughout the war. Its flagship, Moskva, was attacked in April 2022. In September, Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, reportedly killing a number of leading officers and taking out a Russian submarine.

Experts close to Ukraine's Defense Ministry previously told Newsweek that Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to "demilitarize" the Black Sea Fleet as part of steps toward eventually liberating Crimea. In the past four months, Russia has lost 20 percent of its Black Sea fleet, British Defense Minister Grant Shapps said shortly after the attack on the port of Feodosia.

[KC_Conspirator]

Those are some high losses.

[Gene Eric]

With kryptonite?

[dennisw]

Clown Czar Pootin will be dead this year from cancer.... It looks Pratschkovo will inherit.

[janetjanet998]

eventually liberating Crimea

successful aspect of its counteroffensive
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LOL X 1000

[Nervous Tick]

>> Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to “demilitarize” the Black Sea Fleet as part of steps toward eventually liberating Crimea.

ROFLMAO! How’s that working out for you, propaganda organ?

Do It With Your Own Damn Blood And Treasure, Corrupt Ukraine.

HA HA HA!!! They CAN’T! They gotta have OUR treasure! And soon, if they get their way, our BLOOD.

To hell with corrupt Ukraine.

[kiryandil]

Come on, Denny - you can do better than The Poutin'.

[kiryandil]

Retired Lieutenant General Ben Hodges spoke with Newsweek

Henny Bodges, the three-star clown, weighs in.

The dude certainly knew a lot about no-handed polishing of the Halfrican's posterior...

[MinorityRepublican]

Ukraine's attacks on annexed Crimea are chasing President Vladimir Putin's Black Sea Fleet away from the peninsula, and Kyiv's efforts in the region have been the most successful aspect of its counteroffensive

Sinking of the Moskva

The Russian navy was always weak. They had no way to protect themselves against modern threats in war. It has nothing to do with the current (failed) counteroffensive by Ukraine.

[kiryandil]

They had no way to protect themselves against modern threats in war.

Who has got hypersonic missiles, and who hasn't got hypersonic missiles?

You'd be a fool to be in the Navy, now.

[MinorityRepublican]

You’re fine if you’re in the submarine.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

Once Ukraine sinks or destroys the whole fleet, there won’t be any excuse for Moscow to keep occupying Crimea anymore. And Putin’s War will have been for nothing.

[roving]

Is the story false?

[kiryandil]

The Nimitz class weren’t designed as submarines...

[McGruff]

I hope our navy was paying attention.

[kiryandil]

It's always awkward debating someone with brain damage on FR.

So, Happy New Year!, Chad.

I'll leave you to your minders.

[CodeToad]

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[Ronaldus Magnus III]

“”Kyiv is embarking on a strategy to “demilitarize” the Black Sea Fleet””

Reminds me of Hussein declaring he was closing Gitmo in the interest of national security.

[JonPreston]

Tired Ukrainian soldiers demand to be replaced at the front

After almost two years of war, the Ukrainian army is exhausted, writes France info. “We don’t have enough soldiers and doctors. How much longer can we hold out? - Alexander is indignant from the Donbass front. “People… pic.twitter.com/1CeOjX3eHJ— S p r i n t e r (@Sprinter99800) December 30, 2023

[Right_Wing_Madman]

Denny Dimwit, the UAF are surrounded by Russians on three sides at Avdiivka. Do you order the retreat or do you tell them to dig in and fight to the death? You don't like to think about these things, but this is war and you need to make a decision. What do you do? We're all counting on you.