It says 30 ambulances rushed through the streets of Sevastopol with sirens blaring, transporting, according to their source, wounded sailors from Adm Makarov to the military hospital.
If they sank the Admiral Makarov it is a big blow. The frigate is only 5 years old. Quite possibly it was the most valuable ship the Russians have left in the Black Sea.
From what I’ve read today, it sounds like the Ukrainians will push Russian forces out of artillery range in Kharkiv and may be able to push them back to the Russian border.
There are also reports of a landing ship being destroyed while docked at Snake Island.
It’ll be obvious if the Admiral Makaro isn’t seen patroling in the next few days.
No need to publicly take credit for its misfortune.
I’ve read the CIA isn’t happy some people are talking publicly about giving Ukraine targeting data. Its smarter to stay quiet. No need to poke the Russian bear.
Yeah, I mean, come on, no, let them keep getting surprised. Let them worry that one of their own guys may be a Ukrainian mole. Sure, anyone with normal smarts in the Russian side knows we are sharing intel but they don’t need to know about what and how good; that’s something we can pat ourselves in the back about after the job is done.
I agree. CNN is reporting that the extensive intel sharing is becoming a hot political issue. Best to keep it dark. I just want to see continued Ukrainian successes; we don’t need to know how they were achieved.
I’m remembering reading how vexed the navy got in WWII when a newspaper reported our submarines in the Pacific were escaping serious harm because they were deeper than the IJN was figuring they could go and so were setting the depth charges too shallow.
Probably not, since any Secret Service agents with weak hearts would have passed away when Laura Bush visited Afghanistan twice during the Bush administration’s actual direct war there, in 2005 and again in 2008.
This visit was a beautiful act of encouragement and support.