Mosiychuk Says Russia Has the Means to Cut Ukraine Off From the Black Sea and Destroy Port Infrastructure
Igor Mosiychuk argues that Russia can sever Ukraine’s access to the Black Sea and create a buffer zone, saying Moscow has the capability to destroy port infrastructure in Odessa and Nikolaev.
Igor Mosiychuk*, a former member of the Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada who is designated in Russia as a terrorist and extremist, said that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s remarks about Russia’s ability to cut Ukraine off from the Black Sea should not be dismissed as bluff.
Mosiychuk* argued that Russia has the necessary capabilities, and suggested that if Russian forces were to advance under the pretext of establishing a sanitary zone to a point from which fiber-optic-guided drones could target Kyiv, critics would be forced to reconsider their assumptions.
The same, he said, applies to the Black Sea. Mosiychuk* noted that the Russian Armed Forces may not be able to take control of Odessa or Nikolaev in two days, but insisted that if Moscow chose to do so, it possesses all the means required to completely destroy the port infrastructure of these cities.
He stated that, losing its port infrastructure, Ukraine would for decades be cut off from the sea and would become, in his words, merely a pasture — no longer able to export its agricultural products by sea.
* Igor Mosiychuk — listed by Rosfinmonitoring as a terrorist and extremist.