After 516 days of fighting, Putin took the initiative to show his sword to NATO Port Reni was bombed

Mondo International Updated on 2024-01-29

The Russia-Ukraine war has been going on for 516 days, and the conflict between the two sides has intensified. Although Russia has achieved some advantages on the northern front, it is also facing increasing external pressure. Turkey's abrupt shift in stance in favor of Sweden's accession to NATO is a signal that cannot be ignored.

How will Russia respond to this dilemma?

Recently, there have been rumors that Turkey is going to provide an armed escort to Ukraine, but this information has not been confirmed.

1. Russia is once again challenging NATO's bottom line: For the first time since the beginning of the war, the port of Reni, near Odessa, was bombed.

The war between Russia and Ukraine is out of control.

Five days of continuous Russian airstrikes on Odessa have resulted in severe damage to important facilities in Odessa, such as ports, docks, bridges, oil depots, military warehouses and staging areas. However, Ukraine did not give in.

On July 21, Zelensky publicly announced that he wanted to destroy the Crimean bridge. From July 22 to 24, he sent drones and Storm Shadow missiles to attack Crimea for three days in a row. Today, he even launched a massive drone attack on Moscow. One of the drones hit the headquarters building of the French home improvement company Leroy Merlin in Russia, causing a fire. Luckily, there are no makers.

The Ukrainian authorities clearly do not want to show weakness in front of the outside world. They know that in terms of long-range strikes, Russia has more ** and more power than Ukraine.

So, how does Russia respond to Ukraine's hardline attitude and the security threat in Crimea?It is argued that in the whirlpool of such confrontation, Russia also has no room for concessions. Because if Russia backs down, it could fall into the abyss: Ukraine will be more confident in destroying the Crimean bridge and even capturing the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and the Crimean peninsula without even a single soldier.

Therefore, when Ukraine announced yesterday that it was considering using Port Reni as an alternative to the Port of Odessa to continue exporting grain, news came from the Russian side that at about 4 a.m. local time on July 24, the Russian army launched a large number of missiles and suicide drones to carry out concentrated strikes on the port and tank farm of Reni Town in Odessa Oblast in southwestern Ukraine, as well as nearby Izmail and other places. Subsequently, Ukraine ** reported that strong ** occurred in these areas.

According to reports, the port of Reni is located on the north bank of the lower Danube, across the river from Romania, and its water depth is about 7 meters, which is not comparable to the Odessa grain corridor. It may be more used to transport ammunition supplies for Ukraine.

Its bombing is the first since the Russian-Ukrainian war, and it is also widely regarded by the outside world as a provocation to NATO!

At the same time, Ukraine** reported that the commercial seaport of Renny is a large international port and an important transportation hub in Ukraine, with river, sea, road and railway transportation very developed. However, on July 24, an oil tank in Port Reni was hit, which contained Romanian oil, the main raw material for Ukrainian refineries. The infrastructure of the Danube port was also destroyed.

As far as is known, there has been no response from the NATO side at the moment.

Second, Russia's bombing of Port Rainey is also a warning to NATO and the United States: do not think that there is no advance warning.

On July 23, local time, according to foreign media reports, at Zelensky's request, the Ukraine-NATO Defense Committee will hold an emergency meeting in the next few days to discuss the expiration of the Black Sea Grain Initiative and NATO's help to transport grain to Ukraine.

On the same day, the authoritative US Foreign Policy reported that the former commander of NATO forces in Europe, Stavridis, publicly warned Russia: NATO and the United States have the ability to provide armed escort for grain ships, especially the ships of the three main allies in the Black Sea. He directly and unequivocally warned the Russian Black Sea Fleet that if they attacked grain carriers operating in international waters, NATO would return fire on them!

Obviously, although Stavridis is not the current NATO important, but the influence of the United States' "Foreign Policy" in the world political circles is very large, considering Stavridis's status before retirement, it can be considered a kind of temptation of NATO to Russia. At the same time, this is also a hint to Ukraine.

In fact, on July 21, it was reported that a source in the Ukrainian office said that the office, with the support of British intelligence, was working on a plan to send several grain ships to the port of Odessa.

Now the Ukrainian side is negotiating with private companies, at which point several ships will be purchased and organized to go to Odessa to provoke Russia to attack. If the grain ship passes through without a hitch, then Ukraine will declare the grain corridor secure;If the Russian army chooses to attack civilian ships, then Ukraine will be able to launch an international operation against Russia.

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