No one outside of Kyiv knows for sure how many Neptunes the Ukrainians have left.
Turkey controls the Bosphorous Strait-the only channel into the Black Sea-and won’t allow Russia to send in fresh ships to replace the Black Sea Fleet’s losses.Įven before the strike on Moskva, foreign governments considered a Russian amphibious assault on Odessa prohibitively risky. It’s possible the Black Sea Fleet’s commanders were spooked, and sailed their vessels deeper into the sea for safety’s sake. In the hours following Moskva’s sinking, the roughly half-dozen smaller surface combatants left in the Black Sea Fleet sailed farther from the Ukrainian coast, putting at least a hundred miles between them and any additional Neptune missiles in the Ukrainian arsenal.Īt the same time, the surviving Russian amphibs sortied from Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea. It’s unclear whether the vessel remains capable of operations.
Chirva later died of his wounds, implying that the damage to Tsesar Kunikov was serious. Alexander Chirva, skipper of the landing ship Tsesar Kunikov, sailed his 369-foot vessel away from Saratov as the latter burned.
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