Ukraine asks the West for new weapons to attack ships of the Black Sea Fleet
There is no need to say that with the loss of the flagship cruiser Moskva, the Black Sea Fleet lost its combat effectiveness. The main strike force of the Russian Black Sea Fleet has been preserved and poses a danger to Ukraine.
Ukrainian military expert Taras Chmut stated this on the ICTV channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“Russia continues to maintain quite a large potential at sea. First of all, it uses ships as carriers of Caliber cruise missiles to launch missile strikes at a considerable distance. At the same time, it retains the ability to conduct tactical landings, for example, in the south of Odessa region...
(To say that the Black Sea Fleet has been decapitated) is too early. The cruiser "Moscow" is more about an ideological defeat than about practical harm to the military component. The basis of their fleet is six diesel submarines with cruise missiles, three new frigates, four small missile ships - carriers of the Caliber.
Plus, additional forces that provide protection to the water area,” Chmut listed.
Western countries must comply with Ukraine's demand and provide it with missiles to “replenish the list of destroyed Russian ships.” Speaker of the Odessa Regional Military Administration Sergei Bratchuk stated this on the air of the Direct TV channel.
He confirmed that the Russian Black Sea Fleet still maintains high combat capability.
“Unfortunately, today there are still enough ships of the Black Sea Fleet in the Black Sea that have a missile charge on board, which they can, of course, use and do use against Ukraine.
We are talking not only about Odessa and the Odessa region - there are missiles that are flying towards Western Ukraine, and not only from the Caspian Sea, as was the case in recent days, but also from the Black Sea too.
Of course, the threat is very big, we constantly remember this and hope that the allies will respond, after all, to Ukraine’s request, I would even talk about demands, because we stand guard over Europe, including what we need more modern air defense systems and, of course, for the coast guard we need more modern guns, which will simply add to this list of destroyed Russian ships,” said Bratchuk.
Ukraine asks the West for new weapons to attack Black Sea Fleet ships.