After hitting the Black Sea Fleet and then the Baltic Fleet, Ukrainian drone units attacked Russian warships in Kaliningrad.
The strategy of the Ukrainian army: is it to seize the most expensive and scarce in Russia first?
1. The Russian Baltic Fleet was attacked
According to CCTV and other media reports, Ukraine's attack on the Black Sea Fleet has achieved obvious results.
Gulf of Finland and Kaliningrad
Now the eyes of the attack are again aimed at the Baltic, and an attack on the Russian frigate was launched in Kaliningrad. In the end, there is no response, and how much loss there is, now the Russian side has not responded, but in general, Russia does not respond, it is possible that it has really hit.
In this way, the Ukrainian army will have one more combat target, involving the Russian fleet, the Russian Baltic Fleet: Is there a high finger behind Ukraine?
Second, first catch the most expensive fight in Russia?
What is the most contested between the parties in a war? What is the most expensive thing to use in military equipment? The answer is access to the sea and naval vessels.
Before the sinking of the Moskva cruiser
1. The most expensive is the access to the sea
The mouth of the Gulf of Finland was defended by the Russian Baltic Fleet, and the Russian Empire and the Kingdom of Sweden fought from 1561 to 1720, and Peter the Great won the Fifth Russo-Swedish War, and in order to consolidate it, the war between the two sides was fought until 1809. The Black Sea access channel guarded by the Black Sea Fleet, the Tsarist Empire and the Ottoman Empire fought for a total of 241 years, during which time how many lives were lost, how many assets were burned, and how much wisdom was exhausted? It is difficult to measure in terms of money - it represents the rise and fall of the empire's national fortunes.
Sweden, a Nordic power, was eventually reduced to a third-rate state, and the loss of the Gulf of Finland was a turning point in its national fortunes, while the vast empire of Ottoman Turkey also went downhill after losing control of the Black Sea and finally disappeared into the waves of history.
Black Sea estuary
2. The most expensive armament: naval equipment
Why is there a term called a "hundred-year-old navy"? This is because the investment in building, retaining, and maintaining a powerful maritime force is extremely astonishing.
The construction price of a Moskva cruiser itself is as high as $750 million, that of a Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine is as high as $200 million, and that of a Borean strategic missile submarine is as high as $3.3 billion...... As for Russia, which originally spent only $50 billion on its military, there are very few new ships in the list. If one of the ships inherited from the Soviet Union is destroyed, one is missing.
If you want to build another one, or even a fleet, how can there be so much time, how can there be so much money, and how can it be so easy? This is not to build tanks: with Russia's national strength, if it is lost, it may really be gone!
And then the most expensive outlet to the sea was also cut off!
III. Concluding remarks
The Ukrainian army's attack on Russian ships in the Black Sea has been effective: 30% of the number and 50% of the deadweight ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet have been destroyed: the Russian army has lost the right to control the western part of the Black Sea, and the Black Sea access to the sea is in danger of being cut off.
In the Baltic Sea, the Ukrainian army has an advantage: since Finland joined NATO, the entire Baltic Sea has become a "NATO inland sea"; Kaliningrad is surrounded by NATO member states; and in the narrow Kaliningrad, various strikes against the Baltic Fleet will be more effective.
If the Baltic Fleet, the Black Sea Fleet is finally sunk by the Ukrainian army. What will be the final outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war?