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MiTasol · Oct 10, 2024

Do Russian attacks on foreign-flagged ships in the Black Sea violate laws of naval warfare?

This week, Russia has carried out three attacks around Ukraine's southern Odesa port region, all on foreign-flagged civilian container ships, damaging infrastructure and causing multiple casualties.

www.abc.net.au

Maybe it is time for Ukraine to be given a small ship capable of carrying Neptune missiles so that they can start sinking Korean vessels supplying Russia with goods.

GrauGeist · Oct 10, 2024

I beleive that North Korea is supplying Russia by rail.

So the prime target would be the Tumen River bridge - the Russian side, of course.

Don't want to upset the Glorious Leader, you know.

Thumpalumpacus · Oct 10, 2024

GrauGeist said:
Ok, so it's ok for Russia to employ a foreign military's troops bit Ukraine can't?

If it were the other way around, Russia would be issuing the usual nuke/escalation threat...

Of course they're hypocrites. The larger message is that Russia is so afraid of spending their own lives that they're willing to weaken one of the few allies they have. Let them do that.

Thumpalumpacus · Oct 10, 2024

GrauGeist said:
I beleive that North Korea is supplying Russia by rail.

So the prime target would be the Tumen River bridge - the Russian side, of course.

Don't want to upset the Glorious Leader, you know.

So let's fly a couple of ship-crews to man funded missile-craft to target that.

MiTasol · Oct 10, 2024

Agreed - I had forgotten that bridge existed - my memory must be getting old and doddery.

Dimlee · Oct 11, 2024

GrauGeist said:
I beleive that North Korea is supplying Russia by rail.

So the prime target would be the Tumen River bridge - the Russian side, of course.

Don't want to upset the Glorious Leader, you know.

By ships as well and probably, this is the largest share of all deliveries. As far as I can understand, the current estimates that range up to 5 and even 6 mln artillery shells from DPRK are based on South Korean intelligence which monitors both the ground and sea traffic and counts the number of containers. Container ships arrive at Port Dunai. Satellite photos show that those vessels are loaded with deck cargo after the discharge. What is this cargo, we can only guess.

Dimlee · Oct 11, 2024

MiTasol said:
Do Russian attacks on foreign-flagged ships in the Black Sea violate laws of naval warfare?

This week, Russia has carried out three attacks around Ukraine's southern Odesa port region, all on foreign-flagged civilian container ships, damaging infrastructure and causing multiple casualties.

www.abc.net.au

Maybe it is time for Ukraine to be given a small ship capable of carrying Neptune missiles so that they can start sinking Korean vessels supplying Russia with goods.

There have been talks about antishipping (and anti-port) operations beyond the Black Sea in certain Ukrainian communities since the end of 2022 at least. But nothing was discussed in public.
In my opinion, to charter (or buy) a vessel is not a problem but trials of such systems can take a long time - and they should be done somewhere far, far away from the theatres of operations. Maybe drones (air or surface) are a better option than cruise missiles.
Political considerations play a role of course. How Seoul and Tokyo react if Ukraine starts blowing up ships or terminals in the Russian Far East? I don't know.

Dimlee · Oct 11, 2024

NYT vs Chosen Company.

View: https://youtu.be/z89zkDDQ4bQ?si=iEfxiZ448RUedi8l
With English audio.

Thumpalumpacus · Oct 11, 2024

Dimlee said:
Political considerations play a role of course. How Seoul and Tokyo react if Ukraine starts blowing up ships or terminals in the Russian Far East? I don't know.

I'd imagine that such actions would require staging in one or both of those countries.

Snowman · Oct 11, 2024

View: https://x.com/pawelsokala/status/1844419098538803279?s=61

Warspite63 · Oct 11, 2024

Snowman said:
Russian orthodox priests have a lot of work to do now:

View: https://x.com/igorsushko/status/1844463010599121295

View: https://x.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1844460530888778124

Oh dear. What a shame.

GTX · Oct 11, 2024

Terrifying ‘Human Safari’ In Kherson As Russian Drones Hunt Civilians

Russian social media show a large number of precise drone attacks deliberately targeting civilians in Kherson, in clear violation of humanitarian law.

www.forbes.com