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Ukraine is doing something very interesting in Crimea and the Black Sea

Three days of coordinated attacks that are not getting the press they deserve

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Phillips P. OBrien
May 17, 2024
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The war is going all pear-shaped for Ukraine, as I’m sure you know from reading all the papers. There has been a great deal of reporting (including with some questionable graphics) about what is happening in the land war. And yes, its a very difficult period for Ukraine there (though we still have no Russian breakthroughs to report).

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However, while this is happening, Ukraine has been going about launching a series of attacks on Air-Sea-Logistic targets in Crimea and Russia itself across from Crimea. It seems a deliberate, and well planned operation to try and further isolate Crimea while pushing Russian air-sea forces further away from southern Ukraine (indeed to present the Russian Black Sea Fleet with a major dilemma). Ukraine has hit a range of military, logistic and wider economic targets, with a range of different systems, and they have shown the ability to launch repeated attacks on the same targets.

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