Tuesday 26 December 2023

Putin loses another warship

Another Russian warship "destroyed" by the Ukrainians, using a Storm Shadow cruise missile. As one Ukrainian military wag put it, Russia's Black Sea Fleet is getting smaller and smaller. I wonder whether this is bothering Putin or whether he just shrugs his shoulders, knowing that in the end he is going to win. But in fact if the Ukrainians do manage to pick off warships of the Black Sea Fleet on a relatively freqent rate, Putin is going to find probaby the most important fleet on his books has been emasculated. Shouldn't that bother him? After the loss of the Moskva, the Black Sea Fleet's flagship warship in April last year, Putin has been on notice that Kyiv is determined to target and destroy whatever it can pinpoint with its long-range missiles, especially in Black Sea Fleet ports and throughout Crimea. Will this change the way Putin is fighting the war in Ukraine? Will it make him think about negotiating a settlement? I doubt it.

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