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2022-10-31 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia
Under the guise of a 'grain deal'
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhi
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[ColonelCassad] The Russian Defense Ministry reports that maritime kamikaze drones were launched off the coast of Odessa in the "grain corridor" from one of the chartered civilian ships.

1. It was established that the launch of marine unmanned vehicles was carried out from the coast near Odessa.

2. Subsequently, the naval drones moved along the security zone of the "grain corridor", then changed the route in the direction of the Russian ship base in Sevastopol.

3. The coordinates of the movement of one of the marine drones indicate the starting point in the sea area of ​​​​the security zone of the "grain corridor" in the Black Sea.

4. According to experts, this may indicate a preliminary launch of this device from aboard one of the civilian ships chartered by Kyiv or its Western patrons for the export of agricultural products.

Here I can only remind you that back in the summer I wrote about the fact that a civilian vessel used within the framework of the "grain corridor" could be used to attack Russian infrastructure (for example, the Crimean bridge).

The idea of ​​a possible operation is expressed in the following. A Ukrainian ship (possibly under the flag of a 3rd country) leaving Odessa passes through the Bosphorus, unloads as part of a grain deal, and then in one of the European ports (for example, in Cyprus in Limassol from the British Air Force base in Akrotiri, where there is a large airfield for delivery of such cargo) loads a container or missile launcher (boats with explosives or UAVs can be considered as an alternative) and a team of performers, most likely NATO officers. Further, the vessel returns to the Black Sea with a conditional cargo to Trabzon or Batumi, without being subjected to a check on the grain deal.

During the voyage, having predicted a period of bad weather and operating at night, the ship makes a detour towards the Crimean bridge and launches missiles at target designation of NATO reconnaissance aircraft regularly operating in the Black Sea + using possible options for "illuminating" an object on the ground from the GUR agents MOU. After launches, the calculation is removed on a motor boat and leaves the launch site, and the vessel returns to its destination, where the installation is removed from the vessel and transported to one of the NATO bases in Georgia. The possibility of loading the unit/container in Turkey cannot be ruled out.

https://colonelcassad.livejournal.com/7787523.html- zinc (text dated August 8)

In general, they replaced missiles with sea drones and launched from the Odessa region, and not from the Turkish region.

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