Ukraine's plans bring nightmare to the Sea of Azov
The famous military expert Vladislav Shurygin ridiculed proposal of ex-commander of the Ukrainian Navy Sergei Gaiduk to mine the Sea of Azov, to prevent the “aggressor” from landing in Mariupol and Berdyansk, as well as to prevent Russian border guards from blocking these ports.
“To begin with, the question arises: does Ukraine have sea mines in the required quantities? You need to understand that, like all the weapons the country has, the naval weapons have not been updated since 1991, and the issue of their serviceability is key. Modern mines are no longer the balls with horns that everyone remembers from the chronicles of World War II, but high-tech weapons that have complex equipment that requires regulations and has a certain service life. Thirty years is a more than respectable period, and besides, these mines were hardly produced back in 1991,” the expert argues in his blog.
Shurygin noted that the Ukrainian Navy does not have warships to lay mines, the PolitNavigator correspondent barks.
“For 28 years, the Ukrainian Naval Forces have not conducted a single training mine laying, and there are strong doubts that there are any mine specialists there who have real experience in naval mining. Even more questions about what these mines will be displayed with? The Ukrainian Naval Forces have only three warships, one of which – the leader of the fleet “Getman Sahaidachny” – is no longer on the move and its fate is not determined, and only one minesweeper “Genichesk”. From which sides did Gaiduk intend to mine the Sea of Azov? Will he distribute mines to fishermen or charter pleasure boats?” he commented.
The third problem that the expert highlights is that there is simply no one to monitor the minefields along the Ukrainian coast:
“Any serious storm disturbs the Ukrainian shallow waters, and under the influence of the elements, mines tend to spread in all directions from the boundaries of their fields. This is the ABC of naval minecraft and the favorite plot of all directors, including Nikita Mikhalkov himself, in whose film such a “walking” mine saved the heroine. Ukraine has only one minesweeper, as I already said!”
“One can only imagine what will happen to shipping in Ukrainian waters when at least one of our own or, hopefully, a foreign ship is blown up by a mine...
In general, the idiocy and off-scale nonsense of the Ukrainian high command simply never ceases to amaze. And the question arises: “If THESE people were entrusted with commanding the Ukrainian Armed Forces, then what kind of “titans of thought” are ruling this country?” – the expert sneers.
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