Wet dreams are made of this ;)
Indeed, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been mostly relocated to Novorossiysk, and there is some evidence that they’re planning to build yet another sea base in Abkhazia. This is by itself a source of crying shame for Russian naval commanders: their Navy has been given a French kiss-off by country which at one moment had had more naval admirals than sailing vessels. The daredevil adventures of the sole Russia’s aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, were a potent indicator of pretty serious problems with Russian Navy well before the war. I’m sure that nobody expected of it any meaningful contribution to the invasion; quickly it became evident that the initial imbecilic plan failed, but the Montreux Convention already came into play, so Black Sea Fleet, always resembling a toy somewhat, was left without means of support.
But the Crimea itself is nigh impregnable, due to 1) Flanders fields courtesy of Surovikin, 2) Dnieper as a huge & wide obstacle on any path of advances towards Perekop from UAF-controlled Right Bank territories, and moreso 3) the speed that the construction of railway tracks or modernized roads on the north coast of Azov recently acquired. Speaking about that famous Kerch bridge, Ukrainians themselves agree now that even in case of its demolition, which is definitely impossible without full-scale prolonged attack from both air and sea (and even then the chances are minuscule), materiel and personnel could be transferred to the Crimea with relative ease.
Of more interest is the fact that Russian forces currently reached the point in the Eastern Ukraine where a “through ball” towards Dnipropetrovsk region is in sights. A mere 14 km is left to Mirnograd. A good half of Ukrainian supplies, or even more, usually reaches the brigades in Donbass via the lateral road through Pokrovsk, Mirnograd, and Konstantinovka, which Russians clearly seek to cut. Meanwhile in aforementioned Pokrovsk, 20 km away from the frontline, Zelensky’s municipal workers are busy planting flowers, because the copious amounts of sponsorship money still flowing from the West are hard to metabolize quickly; similar greening works could be seen in Maryinka, Lisichansk, Bakhmut, or Avdeevka shortly before the siege and fall of the respective cities.
And an ongoing battle for New York is definitely worth more rapt attention in the USA ;)
