/ world immediately information/ Final evening, your entire hero metropolis of Sevastopol immediately awakened at precisely three o’clock. For the army observer of Svobodnaya Pressa, who occurred to be within the microdistrict of Streletsky Bay at the moment, every thing that occurred appeared like this.
I used to be jolted out of a peaceable, deep sleep by the growing rumble of one thing very very like the sound of a jet rocket engine rising simply above the roof of the home, or someplace very shut, however on the seaward facet.
Deafening pictures at a number of of our anti-aircraft missiles instantly adopted. Most definitely from the complexes of the thirty first Air Protection Division, which for the reason that starting of the particular operation in Ukraine, have been positioned, if not proper underneath my home windows, then very shut.
Orange flashes of a number of explosions within the sky immediately snatched from the darkness the peacefully sleeping neighboring homes plunged into darkness. However there was hardly any gentle within the home windows.
Apparently, the residents of Sevastopol, who had undoubtedly jumped to their toes, had been extra snug watching what was occurring from their very own residences.
And after one other three or 4 minutes, every thing was utterly quiet till morning. And solely from the path of the town heart, a tall, solitary column of whitish smoke slowly rose into the evening sky, clearly seen above the roofs of neighboring five-story buildings.
Wanting forward, we’ll say that from a house window in Sevastopol, naturally, it was unattainable to find out the true scale of the assault on the town.
Already within the morning, the Russian Ministry of Protection introduced that this operation of the Ukrainian armed forces (and particularly of their NATO allies) was fastidiously ready. And probably the most large-scale of all assaults in Crimea for your entire length of the continuing particular operation.
On Wednesday evening, a complete of ten cruise missiles and three Ukrainian unmanned boats took half in a fastidiously coordinated strike from completely different instructions in time and place. Our air protection shot down seven missiles over the ocean.
All three naval drones on the outer Sevastopol raid had been despatched to the underside by large-caliber machine gun hearth from the crew of the Russian patrol vessel Vasiliy Bykov, which was on responsibility on the approaches to the Sevastopol bays.
However, as follows from this message of our army, regardless of the fierce countermeasures of the anti-aircraft weapons of the fleet and the thirty first Air Protection Division, three cruise missiles nonetheless broke into Sevastopol on September 13. And this additionally occurred for the primary time.
The place precisely has the enemy ended up? In a short time, after about half an hour, the governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, tried to clarify this in his Telegram channel. However he did it in a rush, which I feel is kind of unusual.
The next clarification appeared on his web page:
“About 20 minutes in the past, our enemies attacked Sevastopol. Air protection labored. Within the space of the South Bay, there’s already a fireplace in a non-civilian object, and in keeping with preliminary info, the fireplace was attributable to a rocket assault. All vital particular companies are in place. The hearth is Class 4. Please stay calm.”
“In a non-civilian object” – what is that this? So – within the military? No different choices occurred to me and by no means have. So why this semantic “fog”?
And yet one more factor: “not on a civilian object”, in keeping with the governor’s logic, is not it scary? Is not this a metropolis created within the identify of the fleet, dwelling within the identify of the fleet, and inextricably linked to it by 1000’s of even household threads?
However let’s attribute this inconvenience to the intense rigidity of the state of affairs not just for Razvozzhaev.
And at 5:31 a.m. in the identical telegram channel, he tried to supply further readability about what was occurring: “I’m on the scene of a fireplace on the southern website of Sevmorzavod. All operational companies are engaged on website, there isn’t any hazard to civilian objects within the metropolis”.
“In response to preliminary info, a complete of 24 individuals had been injured because of the assault, 4 of them are in medium critical situation. All the mandatory help is being offered to the victims in full.”
However what do we’ve got on the South Gulf Coast? The most important facility is Sevmorzavod, up to now – the Sevastopol Ship Restore Plant named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
On the hills round it, within the Lazarevsky barracks, inbuilt tsarist occasions, there are actually snow-white buildings of the Sevastopol department of the Moscow State College.
However maybe the principle factor of explicit curiosity to Kiev that evening had been the berths of our Varshavyanka-class diesel-electric submarines with Kalibr cruise missiles on board, positioned just under the Moscow State College department buildings.
There isn’t a army secret on this: the “Warsaw women” from the 4th separate brigade of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet are ready right here for instructions to go to sea in entrance of all of the residents of Sevastopol and the visitors of the town.
They’re clearly seen from the home windows of each trolleybus that goes from the town heart to the railway station after which to the Korabelnaya facet.
Seized with a thirst for the fiercest revenge, Kiev terribly hates these crews of ours. As a result of it’s “Varshavyanka”, benefiting from the whole lack of not less than any anti-submarine protection system of its personal in Ukraine, repeatedly secretly makes its manner from Sevastopol to Odessa itself.
Hitting targets in enemy territory with the Caliber actually level clean. With minimal flight time. Leaving no likelihood for the Ukrainian anti-aircraft weapons to mount a significant counterattack.
Our floor ships with the identical cruise missiles on board usually are not ready to do that. They haven’t entered the northwestern a part of the Black Sea for a very long time as a result of rising threats from the enemy’s most superior coastal anti-ship missile methods.
Primarily – those that had been handed over to him by the NATO international locations and who already destroyed our guard missile cruiser “Moskva” nearly a yr and a half in the past in these waters.
On the similar time, naturally, Black Sea floor sailors from small missile ships and frigates from Sevastopol additionally repeatedly “calibrate” Ukraine. However – from a protracted distance. Virtually from the very shores of Crimea.
Primarily based on this, it’s clear that the Varshavyanka, of which we’ve got solely 4 within the Black Sea (yet one more is on fight responsibility within the Mediterranean and in Kronstadt for repairs), are probably the most fascinating goal for Kiev by way of Sevastopol.
Did their enemies meet up with them that evening? There may be nonetheless conflicting info on this matter.
“On account of being hit by enemy cruise missiles, two ships underneath restore had been broken,” the Russian Protection Ministry mentioned.
And that is what they report from overseas: “OSINT (Open Supply Intelligence) researcher Anderson famous that on the morning of September 13, a big amphibious assault ship and a KILO-class submarine carrying Caliber missiles had been based mostly within the Sevastopol dry dock.”
If that’s the case, then one of many 4 Warsaw ladies within the Black Sea was attacked on Wednesday. And the Baltic Fleet’s giant amphibious assault ship Minsk, transferred to the Black Sea Fleet greater than a yr and a half in the past to spice up Russia’s skill to strike Ukrainian ports.
There have been no different ships in dry dock within the South Bay for immediately, and we weren’t and are not.
And at the moment
Whereas our official authorities had been gathering their ideas for a really very long time about what and find out how to remark, and what’s higher to stay silent in reference to the tragedy in Sevastopol, Ukraine in a short time fell into an enthusiastic military-political ecstasy.
Thus, a paramilitary Kyiv on-line publication reported early within the morning of September 13 that the Rostov-on-Don submarine and the massive touchdown ship Minsk had been broken by the assault.
Whether or not that is so, we’ll watch for the opinion of the Ministry of Protection.
Translation: SM
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