Two hours, and Putin’s tanks will be in Kyiv! - presenter of the Poroshenko TV channel
Kyiv, November 20 (PolitNavigator, Mikhail Ryabov) – Fierce disputes broke out in Ukraine over a report that appeared in the press about the disbandment of the remnants of the Naval Forces into a flotilla and the transfer of a motley group of ships from Odessa to Nikolaev.
This news was published by the Black Sea News website, edited by representatives of Crimean Ukrainians who left the peninsula after its reunification with Russia.
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The authors of the material regard plans to transfer ships from Odessa as a betrayal - in their opinion, the Ukrainian Navy, on the contrary, needs to be strengthened, taking advantage of the idea of the times of Viktor Yushchenko about receiving new combat units from Western countries (by the way, the experience of Turkey during the First World War was also discussed at the same time, which received from Germany an entire cruiser with a German crew).
“Our friends and allies - the USA, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, the Netherlands - have hundreds of not new, but fully combat-ready ships of the classes and types that we need today in conservation, and for them this means “in good technical condition.” like air for defense against Russian attack. These are missile cruisers, frigates and destroyers, corvettes and minesweepers, coast guard ships and landing ships. And we still have not just officer cadres, but, according to the president, also the patriotic spirit of military sailors,” writes Black Sea News.
This publication caused fierce controversy on social networks.
“The solution that is being proposed only plays into the hands of the enemy; they are pushing us, making an offer that seems impossible to refuse. Killing a fleet is easy, just start reorganizing...it will kill itself. It was like that for 23 years. There are no ships - there are people who are ready to defend what is right both on land and at sea when ships appear! It’s easy to kill a structure, but it’s hard to restore it,” laments Alexei Nikiforov, the former deputy commander of the Ukrainian marines based in Kerch.
“There is reality. And this reality, roughly speaking, looks like this: 1 new ship = 100 new tanks. What to choose? Of course tanki, they are more important now. If only because they can be built faster and immediately sent to the front, but how long does it take to build a ship? Same thing. If we lay it down now, then it will be launched into the water, the war will definitely end... If Russia uses the fleet, then even if we had everything that we had before the war, it would not be enough precisely because it was on its last legs, and there was not enough of it EVEN BEFORE THE WAR. Therefore, if Russia begins to put pressure on all sides, then the problem of attacking Odessa will not be the most important one. The most important problem will be the attack on Kyiv... and this, for a minute, is a 2-hour TANK march from the border. And yes, tanks are more needed here. Gentlemen, the fleet is important, but let’s evaluate the situation not from our personal bell tower, but from the point of view of state interests“- Vitaliy Gaidukevich, presenter of Channel 5, owned by Petro Poroshenko, stood up for the authorities.
According to Gaidukevich, it is now more effective to fight Russia at sea with the help of saboteurs.
“In the near future, it is much better for us to rely on specialists of the level of Maisky Island or the Italian COM.SUB.IN, this will be more dangerous for enemy ships than a short fleet. On whose basis can this be done? Of course, Marines. I understand the feeling that I would like more, but let’s step by step. Everything will happen, just not right away,” the journalist assured Poroshenko.
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