The Ukrainian military revealed the details.
4.02.2024
The actions of the Ukrainian Defence Forces led to significant complications in the work of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. In particular, in terms of equipping ships with missiles, for which the enemy is trying to build a new base.
This was stated on the air of the telethon by the speaker of the Naval Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, captain of the third rank Dmytro Pletenchuk. He said that the fleet of the occupiers was cut off from the Kalibr missile stocks, with which they used to often hit the Ukrainian infrastructure.
“The Black Sea Fleet has been in this state for quite a long time – they can’t use anything else except the vessels and the Kalibr-type cruise missiles against Ukraine. But there are also problems with this. They were cut off from Sevastopol, where their main logistics base is located,” he said.
Pletenchuk added that in Novorossiysk, where after numerous strikes on the Crimea the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation “fled”, the problem with the loading of missiles from the occupiers had not yet been resolved, because the Kalibrs remained in Sevastopol.
“And they are forced to take risks, go to Sevastopol, quickly load and get out of there. It can be stated that the work of the Black Sea Fleet, if not paralyzed, is greatly complicated,” said the speaker of the Navy of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
For his part, Serhiy Bratchuk, the representative of the South Ukrainian Volunteer Army and the head of the Public Council under the Odesa Regional Military Administration, noted that the Russians are trying to quickly build a new base for the Kalibrs.
“They understand that they have difficulty using these missiles. They are now building a base on the territory of the Russian Federation on the Black Sea coast. It’s going to be difficult, but they’re working on it,” he said.
For Ukraine, the main thing is to prevent the occupiers from completing this base. Ukrainian special forces, Bratchuk added, “know exactly what to do with it.”
Recall that Ukraine has already flooded a fifth of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which numbered 70 ships before the full-scale invasion.
https://charter97.org/en/news/2024/2/4/582209
Well, “Amateurs study strategy, professionals study logistics.” (Omar Bradley)
Yes, and I forgot who said that the war (WWII) was not won by tanks but by the supply trucks.
It may have been General Patton, when his advance was slowed down by a lack of supplies, or General Plank, who created the “Red Ball Express” and solved the problem: “Let it never be said that [a lack of supplies] stopped Patton when the Germans couldn’t.”
https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/red-ball-express
Watch the 1952 movie about this logistical masterpiece here: