Just when netizens were speculating whether Zelensky had fired Zaluzhny, there was a new record on the Ukrainian side. Ukrainian intelligence said that they had launched a military operation in the Crimean Sea at night and successfully sank a Russian warship. The Ukrainian side said that the warship was the "Ivanovavet" missile ship of the Black Sea Fleet, and because the ship was parked overnight in the port of Lake Donuzlav, the Ukrainian army launched several attacks on it and finally sank it.
In order to prove the truth and reliability of this statement, Ukraine even uploaded a nighttime video footage, but netizens who watched the video were still skeptical. It is reported that the video does record a drone rushing towards a ship, which exploded after the collision and then sank the ship, and only part of the bow of the ship can be seen from the water. However, due to the quality of the video and the nighttime shooting, it is unclear whether this is the content of the recent war or which ship was attacked.
The Russian side has not yet responded to this matter, but the US side has expressed its belief in Ukraine's strength, and on this ground, it has proposed to implement the aid plan for Ukraine as soon as possible. It's just that the road to aid Ukraine is not smooth, and the U.S. government has not been able to reach a reunification in this regard. On the contrary, the EU has made considerable progress in aid, and has been putting pressure on Hungary, which has been opposed to aid, and now Hungary has compromised, and the EU has officially approved 50 billion euros in aid. In addition, the EU hopes that the US side can learn from this and truly implement the money in the aid plan for Ukraine at an early date.
In order for Ukraine to get more money from Western countries, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg recently visited the United States. Considering the need to strengthen the determination of the United States to allocate funds, the secretary general went so far as to lead the contradiction to the Chinese side. He said that if the United States gives up Ukraine, it is tantamount to promoting the progress of China's military reunification with Taiwan, and if it wants to contain the mainland's measures against Taiwan, rushing to aid Ukraine is one of the most effective ways.
I have to say that this is really on the heart of the US side. Recently, Samuel Paparo, commander of the US Navy's Pacific Fleet, was questioned and forcibly linked the issue of aid to Ukraine with the issue of China's Taiwan Strait. He said that the United States must implement the money to aid Ukraine in order to prevent Russia from achieving its military goals, and more importantly, it must not let China follow the example, and that assisting Ukraine in striking at Russia will help deter China and make China dare not make too many moves on the Taiwan Strait issue.
Paparo used the Russia-Ukraine issue to hype up the Taiwan Strait issue, and he believed that China was quite "scheming". From his point of view, China's focus will not be on how difficult it will be for Russia to take Ukraine, but on how to learn from the fighting experience of the war between Russia and Ukraine so that it can achieve a short but sharp battle when it recovers the Taiwan Strait. He felt that China should learn from Russia's futile struggles, but it has not, and instead has been thinking about how to improve its ability to narrow down strategic, operational, and tactical early warning and act quickly.
According to the analysis of professionals, the main target of the US in the Russia-Ukraine war is not Russia, but China. In the view of the US side, the worse Russia suffers in this conflict, the stronger the effect of China's deterrence, and the less daring it will be to take action against the Taiwan authorities. Preventing China's military reunification is the real purpose of the United States' aid to Ukraine, which is why Paparo forcibly pulled up the Taiwan Strait issue when talking about the issue of aid to Ukraine, and he believes that defeating Russia's morale is defeating China's morale.