How Ukraine’s fight against Russia in the Black Sea threatens to bring Georgia into the battle.
Published April 3, 2024
Vladimir Putin is being humiliated in the Black Sea. His ships are under constant bombardment from Ukrainian forces.
Since Mr Putin’s invasion began in February 2022, Ukraine has successfully used its unmanned aerial defences — including drones and missiles — to destroy about 80 ships in Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
The onslaught has been so costly, Moscow has withdrawn its fleet from its Sevastopol headquarters on the annexed Crimean Peninsula, which was destroyed in a missile strike in September last year.
The vessels were moved east to Novorossiysk.
Last month, Mr Putin fired his naval commander-in-chief over the heavy losses.
Now, the Russian president is looking for safer alternatives and has turned his sights south to a port in Abkhazia — a Russian-occupied territory of the former Soviet country of Georgia.
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SOURCE: www.abc.net.au
RELATED: Putin appoints new commander of Black Sea Fleet
Published April 3, 2024
Russian leader Vladimir Putin has appointed Vice Admiral Sergey Pinchuk as the new commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.
Source: RIA Novosti with reference to Sergey Shoigu, Minister of Defence of Russia
Details: With two more decrees, Putin appointed Admiral Alexander Moiseev as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy and Vice Admiral Konstantin Kabantsov as Commander of the Northern Fleet.
Both have experience acting in respective positions.
Background: In mid-February anonymous pro-Russian Telegram channels claimed that Admiral Viktor Sokolov, the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, had been dismissed following the sinking of the landing ship Tsezar Kunikov on 14 February.
