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| Ukrainian forces make attempts to seize Snake Island |
| 2022-05-10 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [REGNUM] Several desperate attempts to land air and sea assault on Zmeiny Island over the past 48 hours have been made by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was announced on May 9 by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov , at a briefing. "The Ukrainian provocation was thwarted," he said. The enemy suffered heavy losses. Konashenkov added that three Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters with troops on board, one Mi-24 helicopter, as well as three Ukrainian Su-24 aircraft and one Su-27 aircraft were shot down in the Zmeinoye area. According to him, the Russian Armed Forces also shot down 29 UAVs in the air. In addition, he noted, three armored assault boats of the Ukrainian Navy with military personnel were destroyed during an attempted landing on the night of May 8. According to him, the Russian military in total destroyed more than 50 Ukrainian saboteurs during the landing and attempt to gain a foothold on the island. As REGNUM reported , on May 8, the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said that two more Ukrainian Su-24 bombers and one Mi-24 helicopter of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were destroyed by Russian air defense systems over Zmeiny Island over the past night. According to Live Journal blogger Donetsk: 1. Odessa. 81 years later, history repeats itself. Only then was Constanta as a logistics hub for the Wehrmacht, now Odessa as a logistics hub for the UGIL. Even the ship called "Moskva" died, then the leader, now the cruiser. What's happening? And the following happens - in the first days of the NMD, having captured the Serpent (more rock than an island) and establishing control over the water area, the KChF completely blocked Odessa from the air, sea and created a threat of landing, diverting large forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. The death of "Moscow" showed a simple thing - without ships with heavy and long-range air defense systems, such a blockade is impossible. And there was only one such ship. Unmodernized and outdated. Even frigates carry a marine analogue of the Buk, but this is not at all the same. As a result, the Snake was under attack. The enemy began to inflict these blows with the help of the UAV. We lost (presumably) several (2-3) small boats and air defense systems and decided to evacuate the garrison, which turned out to be without cover. The helicopter was killed during the evacuation. After that, the crests stopped raising the ensign and lost a boat, two planes, several helicopters. The buildings on the island have been destroyed. Nobody's island. It has been proved once again that without heavy ships with modern air defense, such operations are impossible. There are few frigates for them. There are no heavy ships at the KChF. Odessa was well leveled with rockets, several dozen arrivals, but this does not solve the problem. It can only be solved by taking the city, or reaching its outskirts with the erasure of the MLRS and artillery of all military and port infrastructure facilities. Elsewhere in the Russian blogosphere it has been commented that whoever controls Serpent Island controls Ukraine's access to ports of the Danube. |
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