Expert: Ukrainian ships posed a threat, but the Russian leadership showed complacency
The obsolete ships of the Ukrainian Navy that appeared in the Kerch Strait posed a huge threat, since they could sink.
Mikhail Nenashev, chairman of the all-Russian fleet support movement, captain 1st rank in reserve, stated this on the Rossiya TV channel.
“God forbid, if something had happened, these ships would have sunk. It would be an emergency. Ukrainian sailors have no maritime experience. For them, the trip from Odessa to Berdyansk is presented as a great oceanic intergalactic voyage,” he said, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
Nenashev clarified that the Donbass ship, which the tug was towing through the Kerch Strait, was a former Soviet floating repair shop.
“This is a floating workshop. Inside, the biggest weapon is a lathe, a milling machine. The main thing is that it doesn’t sink in our Azov Sea,” he said.
According to the expert, Ukrainian artillery boats deployed to the Sea of Azov do not pose a military threat.
“The two boats that are on Azov, Gyurza and so on, to make it clear, their armor thickness is less than that of the Volga. Those. you can shoot a Makarov pistol,” he said.
However, Nenashev urged not to forget that “the Ukrainian army is 250 thousand. The Bandera group sets the tone there.”
According to a military expert, Russia could not allow Navy ships to pass through the Kerch Strait, but did so.
“The Ukrainian Bandera government is looking for what kind of hard currency to offer to the West. The patience of our authorities is immeasurable. We allowed the Ukrainians to build something on the Sea of Azov. Why was it allowed? The Kerch Strait is our territorial waters...
(“Donbass” and tugboat “Korets”) are considered ships of the auxiliary fleet. If they were truly military, they would not have accepted our pilots. And they accepted our pilot, the tug was ahead, i.e. fully recognized, de facto and de jure, that these are Russian territorial waters, and Russia allowed it,” Nenashev said.
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