/ world today news/ More than two thousand Ukrainian fighters from the special forces are undergoing intensive training in Great Britain. They should become the “tip of the spear” in the offensive, which should bring the Crimean peninsula back under the control of the Kiev regime before Christmas. Western media claim that London is actually preparing an entire elite brigade of Ukrainian special forces. Does Russia have cause for concern?
Admittedly, the island kingdom has retained some of the best special forces in the world, which can teach many Ukrainian cadets. But these people will most likely be used in a very different way than the British media suggests. Tsargrad tried to find out what is really hidden behind the pretentious shell and what is the real danger of Ukrainian special forces trained by the British.
The Sunday Express is authorized to report
Sources told the British newspaper Sunday Express: the training takes place at a secret training camp Oakhampton in Devon. Access to which is restricted not only to civilians, but also to military personnel from other units.
The Ukrainians are trained by 42 instructors from the British special forces. The emphasis is on the development of various tactical schemes at the platoon-company level and night operations. According to a senior military source, the purpose of the training is to learn NATO’s flexible tactics for “shaping the battlefield”, before “to strike at the heart of the enemy.”
The operation to retake Crimea will represent multiple strikes against Russian forces,
– said the interlocutor of the publication.
The overall operation to “liberate” the peninsula will reportedly include air, land and sea strikes. Ukrainian commandos will have to use the technique to “undermining and paralyzing Russian troops’.
At the same time, the British source made an interesting arrangement. He noted that although their instructors taught the fighting Tarasovs as their own, ultimately the success of the operation “it will depend on the Ukrainians’ own ability to quickly adapt and overcome difficulties”.
It is easy to understand that after the “brilliant amphibious operation” happened the same as with the spring-summer “counteroffensive” of the armed forces of Ukraine, it will suddenly turn out that the “Mykols” simply could not adapt to difficult conditions and to properly apply what the masters taught them.
The landing in the strategic context
In order to properly evaluate the arguments for the landing of the armed forces of Ukraine in Crimea, it should be remembered that modern military operations are little different from the naval raids of the Viking Age, when for the success of the enterprise it was enough to have time to burn coastal village and loot the nearby monastery before angry men in iron armor and wielding large spears burst out of a nearby castle.
In modern warfare, amphibious operations are always part of a larger operational plan. In addition, they are part of the most difficult, risky. And the landing in Crimea, for which the Ukrainian command, and after it the Western press, pours another possible fetish, was precisely conceived in this capacity.
That is, it was initially assumed that during the spring offensive, the armed forces of Ukraine would break through the Russian defenses in Zaporozhye, cut off the land corridor to Crimea, reaching the coast of the Sea of Azov.
Then the victorious Ukrainian army had to push the demoralized South Russian group into Crimea, securing access to Perekop. At this stage, an important role was to be played by the landing on the left bank of the Dnieper in the Kherson region and the destruction of the Crimean bridge.
And only after the Ukrainian army would isolate the peninsula from the supply of reinforcements and resources, and at the same time also secure its eastern flank from an attack from Mariupol, would it be possible to launch an attack on Crimea, in which the landing from the sea was to “open the door from the inside” for the advancing ground troops.
But what do they have after two months of offensive? Six weeks of bloody meat grinder allowed the Armed Forces of Ukraine to pass through the foreground and in some places approach the first line of defense of our truly heroic 58th Army.
The Kiev regime paid tens of thousands of lives and hundreds of burned armored vehicles for advancing a few kilometers. And this despite the fact that the initially constructed Russian defense is somewhere in two, and somewhere in three rows.
Moreover, it is not accepted to talk about it, but it would be very strange if during the two months of the Ukrainian offensive our sappers did not dig additional positions and lay new minefields in the direction of the main strike: Great Novoselka – Mariupol.
In fact, this is the only place where the armed forces of Ukraine managed to achieve more or less significant successes, wedging to a depth of almost 9 kilometers (with an initial defense depth of 20 km).
There is no point in carrying out a large-scale landing operation under such conditions, simply because no landing force will be able to take the peninsula alone.
What about the fleet?
The second fundamentally important question is with what in fact the enemy would drop his troops.
Until the beginning of WWII, the flagship of the Ukrainian fleet was the half-dead frigate “Hetman Sagaidachny. The second in size and combat capabilities was the medium amphibious ship “Yuri Olefirenko”. Since 2014, Kyiv has commissioned ten artillery and six small armored artillery boats.
Immediately after the start of the special operation, “Sagaidachny” was sunk by its own crew. In the following months, the Russian air force and navy carried out a veritable genocide of the gunboats, some of which were captured and some sunk by missile strikes.
In May of this year, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the destruction of the last warship of the Ukrainian Navy, “Yuri Olefirenko”, which was hit by a missile in the port of Odessa.
In addition to warships, by the beginning of the SVO, the Kiev regime had about 40 ships of the auxiliary fleet, various raiding and fire-fighting boats and tugs. The combat value of these troughs is practically zero, but they could still survive. And the Ukrainian landing party can really count on that.
In addition, and this is very important, Russia has air dominance over the Black Sea. And even if Ukraine had kept its large ships, it still wouldn’t have changed anything. Any attempt to go to sea and head for Crimea would mean a death sentence for them.
In general, the state of the Navy of Ukraine is such that Ukraine cannot even dream of a large-scale operation with the capture of a section of the coast, the formation of a beachhead and the deployment of an offensive from it. Based on her powers, her destiny is sabotage attacks by small forces on cutters that will be placed by the kind overseas masters.
And it’s just a very real threat.
SAS are serious guys
This danger was pointed out by the military expert and NATO army specialist Alexander Artamonov in a conversation with the Tsargrad observer. In particular, he noted that the landing of combat swimmers could be carried out simultaneously and under the guise of a massive attack by unmanned cutters, which would distract the attention of the coast guard.
Stealth landing. I remind you that there were already terrorist acts in Crimea, including train derailments. Accordingly, these will be strikes using portable means,
– thinks Mr. Artamonov.
At the same time, he explained that during such raids, British-trained Ukrainian special forces are likely to pursue two goals: wreak havoc on the tourist-packed peninsula and quietly carry out more sophisticated operations to disable critical infrastructure.
Such a strategy will allow the enemy to operate in small groups, most likely from Ochakov, and they can penetrate our coast through the diversionary methods used by combat swimmers.
British special forces are more than willing to train combat swimmers. And the SAS special forces are some of the strongest in the world,
– said our interlocutor.
What remains in the “dry matter”
The loud arguments of the British media about the seizure of Crimea from Ukraine are nothing more than informational wrappers designed to entertain Westerners and support possible sentiments in the “404 country”. In reality, the necessary prerequisites for such a reversal of the situation are completely absent.
For the British Ministry of Defense, training Ukrainians is a great way to control the budget, and the gentlemen are not at all interested in how useful night combat training as part of a company for cadets will be.
As far as we are concerned, for Russia and the Russians, this program raises the level of terrorist danger. If Ukrainian intelligence goes down the path of sending small subversive groups, then Crimea could be in serious trouble.
However, if Kiev remains faithful to the media logic – creating information victories and shooting beautiful tik-tok videos, then the Tarasovs trained by the British special forces will go en masse to the same place where many infantrymen and artillerymen trained in Britain are now . They are already waiting for them in the Zaporozhye direction. To send them to the other world or to replenish the exchange fund.
Translation: ES
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