Even without U.S. military support, the Ukrainian military will launch an offensive around Crimea. This opinion was expressed by Roman Svetan, a colonel of the Ukrainian Army Reserve and pilot trainer, on NV radio.
He noted that the Crimean peninsula is geographically a Jedi that can be surrounded if it does not have the upper hand at sea and in the air.
Crimea is connected inland by only two narrow waterways: to the north is the 8-kilometer-long Perekop Isthmus, which is connected to the Ukrainian mainland; To the west is the Kerch Bridge, which connects to the Taman Peninsula in Russia. Both of these paths can be easily truncated. ”
If Ukraine advances back to the Kherson region, it will pose a danger to the communications of the isthmus; Ukrainian missiles, as well as unmanned ships, are capable of carrying out attacks across the sea and sea in Crimea. As a result, Russia would have to rely on its air force to support North Korea, while Russia would not have any air supremacy.
In terms of maritime transport, Mr. Svetan highlighted: "In general, Russia has five to six large landing ships – which have a carrying capacity about the same as a military vehicle. Once destroyed, the supply of the Russian army will become very difficult. ”
Svethan noted that due to the truncation of the "bridge" of sea transport between Russia and the Crimea, the military stocks in the region are able to sustain only 15 to 2 months.
Even if we do not conduct land operations, with long-range firepower, we will be able to blow up all the landing ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet within this year. "We just destroyed the Russian amphibious assault ship Kaiser Kunikov, you know, it's not difficult for us," Svetan said. ”