#Black Sea fleet

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Very good news: This morning, a Russian Black Sea Fleet staff car exploded in Sevastopol, killing the 41st Missile Boat Brigade's chief of staff, Captain 1st Rank Valery Trankovsky. Source: OSINTtechnical

P.S. The Russian Black Sea Fleet's missile boats launched cruise missiles against civilian targets in Ukraine and Russian war criminal thought he would go unpunished…

[tomorrowusa]

It's not certain whether there will be any war crimes trials after the war, so Ukraine is going after war criminals on its own.

A senior Russian naval officer was killed in a car bombing in Crimea on Wednesday, the latest in a series of targeted attacks on Russian military personnel and pro-Kremlin figures in occupied Ukrainian territories as well as inside Russia. An official in Ukraine’s security services told the Ukrainian Pravda outlet that the agency had orchestrated the car bomb attack in the Russian-controlled port city of Sevastopol that killed Valery Trankovsky, the chief of staff of the 41st Missile Brigade of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet. The official said Trankovsky was “a war criminal” who had ordered missile strikes from the Black Sea at civilian targets in Ukraine. Russia has used warships from its Black Sea fleet, as well as strategic bombers, to conduct missile strikes on targets across Ukraine that have led to hundreds of civilian casualties.

Nice of Russia to keep its war criminals nearby so Ukraine can find them. 🙂 But the reach of Ukraine goes well beyond Russian-occupied parts of the country.

Ukraine has targeted dozens of Russian military officers and Russian-installed officials whom Kyiv has accused of committing war crimes in the country. Little is known about the clandestine Ukrainian resistance cells involved in assassinations and attacks on military infrastructure in Russian-controlled areas. In October, a high-ranking officer in the GRU military intelligence service who had recently returned from fighting in Ukraine was assassinated outside his house in a village in the Moscow region. The same month, Ukraine claimed responsibility for a car bomb attack that killed an official at the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Kyiv is also believed to have been behind the killing of a former Russian submarine captain who was shot dead while jogging in the southern Russian city of Krasnodar and may have been tracked through his profile on the fitness app Strava.

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[dougielombax]

Get fucked!

Make them eat shit!

Wait. Another one?!

They really do work fast.

I’m impressed.

[memenewsdotcom]

Ukraine says it killed Russia Black Sea Fleet commander

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2023: Swedish Armed Forces' "Lessons from the War in Ukraine"

Translations from Swedish today. I saw this Swedish Defense Force unclassified report on lessons learned thus far from the War in Ukraine mentioned on Lars Wilderäng’s twitter feed @Cornubot and on his blog Cornucopia: Eternal Growth in a Finite World. Lars Wilderäng is a Swedish writer who according to his agency’s website, has a “great interest in politics and societal issues shines through in…

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Russia deploys trained dolphins at Black Sea naval base

The Russian Navy is using trained dolphins to protect important bases from special forces divers, according to Naval News.

These marine mammals are already stationed at the entrance to Sevastopol harbour in Crimea. According to news reports, the Russian Navy has deployed dolphins at another base in the northern part of Crimea.

The deployment of troops is probably aimed at defence against Ukrainian special forces who pose a threat in the area.

Trained dolphins are used against military divers. No human can swim over a dolphin. Moreover, the inbuilt sonar gives them an even greater advantage.  Most likely, dolphins are used to protect ships from limpet mine divers or reconnaissance divers. Once they detect an intruder, they can tag it for their human counterparts to reconnoiter, and possibly deliver a lethal blow. Perhaps the dolphins are patrolling the coast where Ukrainian special forces are conducting raids on coastal targets.

Read more HERE

[i-news-you]

Welcome to "I News You"! In today's video, we're delving into the astonishing saga of Viktor Sokolov, the commander of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, and the enigmatic events that have gripped the world.

Segment 1: Join us as we uncover the jaw-dropping twist in this story - Sokolov's miraculous return from the dead. Was he really killed in a missile attack in Crimea, or is there more to this tale than meets the eye?

Segment 2: We'll dissect the Ukrainian special forces' bold claim about Sokolov's demise and reveal the shocking evidence they presented. But can we trust it?

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Kilo-class submarine made 2014 called "Rostov-na-Donu" after the Storm Shadow attack in Sevastopol dry-dock, 13/09/2023

It's just a scratch!

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Erdogan’s Third Term as President of Turkey and What It Means

On May 28th 2023, Recep Tayyip Erdogan was giving a victory speech to the excited Turkish masses, who had democratically elected him to a third term as President of Turkey. He achieved 52.2% of the vote in  the second round of elections compared with the 47.8% of the challenger, Kemal Kilicdaroglu. Prior to the election result, it had been widely speculated that the long autocratic regime of…

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Russian Warships in the Age of Sail 1696-1860: Design, Construction, Careers and Fates :: John Tredrea & Eduard Sozaev

[tomorrowusa]

People who claim that Ukraine is completely dependent on the United States for its defense just aren't paying attention.

A couple of days ago we posted about Ukraine's innovative tech sector.

Since then CNN got an exclusive close-up look at Ukraine's sea drones which have been keeping Russia's fleet at bay. Such drones have been responsible for several high profile hits on Russian infrastructure and military assets.

A few weeks ago Ukraine did give us a glimpse of what looks like an earlier model of sea drone. In the stats provided in a vid about the country's naval forces, the top speed of the drone was given as 80 kph/50 MPH.

All these sea drones are entirely Ukrainian designed and built.

Ukraine does need help from NATO countries and other Western democracies. But it has shown that it can pull its weight in the alliance and will eventually provide its partners with innovative and effective defense systems.

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YEESSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Get that ruZZ trash eradicated from Qirim!!

The moment Ukrainian missile hits Russian Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol, Crimea.

Courtesy of Sternenko.

😍😍😍

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Sailors of the Navy Fleet, Black Sea, Sevastopol, Ukraine/Russia, 1930s - by Sergey Shimansky (1898 - 1972), Ukrainian

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Ukraine Destroys Russia’s Brand-New $65 Million Warship Sergei Kotov

Ukraine has destroyed the newest patrol ship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet, the $65 million Sergei Kotov, and left pro-Kremlin war reporters sulking.

“As a result of a strike by Magura V5 maritime drones, the Russian Project 22160 ship Sergei Kotov received damage to the stern, starboard and left sides,” Ukrainian military intelligence said in a statement.

“The fewer such ships, the fewer anti-aircraft missile systems will be deployed on them, meaning more opportunities for Ukrainian security and defense forces,” spokesman Andriy Yusov told local media, adding that more than 10 ambulances were spotted rushing to help the evacuated crew members. At least seven crew members were killed, Ukrainian authorities said.

Audio of what Ukraine described as an intercepted radio communication also appeared to capture a Russian commander reporting on the “tragic event” and destruction of the ship, lamenting that a helicopter had also been obliterated in the nighttime attack near the Kerch Strait.

The 308-foot, 1,700-ton ship entered the Black Sea Fleet in July 2022.

Russia’s Defense Ministry has yet to comment on the incident, though pro-Kremlin military bloggers begrudgingly admitted that Ukraine had pulled off the attack.

“If it continues like this, the Black Sea Fleet will have only catamarans and rubber banana boats for vacationers. It’s fucked,” wrote one popular pro-war Telegram channel.

The Sergei Kotov had been targeted in three previous attacks by Ukrainian forces before finally being taken out this time around. Noting that Russia had plenty of defenses in place to protect the ship, pro-war propagandist Alexander Kots said that “unfortunately, the enemy is also evolving.”

“The crew fought heroically until the end. … But this time it is a story without a happy ending,” he wrote on social media.

“The ship ‘Sergei Kotov’ sunk,” wrote former Vladimir Putin adviser Sergei Markov, calling it part of a “new type of war” in which “what matters most are the multitude of drones, space reconnaissance, and electronic warfare.”

“This is where we need to overtake the West,” he said.

By Allison Quinn.

[collapsedsquid]

Anatol Lieven suggested that the experience of Ukraine defeating the Russian Black Sea fleet with a naval power of "None" may bode poorly for US ship's attempts to operate in the waters off China in the event of war. I would suggest that US ships are simply Built Different, and would simply avoid being sunk by cheap anti-ship missiles and drones, with their experiences off Yemen and Israel providing evidence for this.