Activity of Russian missile carriers in the Black Sea has decreased - Pletenchuk

The activity of Russian missile carriers in the Black Sea has decreased due to threats and logistical challenges.

According to him, the Russian military hardly uses missile carriers in the Black Sea, limiting their operations to movement. Russia is focusing primarily on aviation, while the use of sea-based cruise missile carriers has significantly decreased.

This was stated on television by Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesperson for the Ukrainian Navy, in response to a question about how actively the Russians are using missile carriers for maneuvers in the Black Sea, reports a Ukrinform correspondent.

“They are practically not being used at all; they are not being deployed. They are just changing their mooring locations, and that’s it. Here, they continue to rely primarily on aviation, and the activity of sea-based cruise missile carriers in particular has dropped sharply recently,” Pletenchuk noted.

According to the spokesperson, this is due both to the actions of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and to the limited basing capabilities of the fleet, particularly in Novorossiysk, where there are difficulties in ensuring full-scale operations.

When asked why the Russians still use missile carriers from time to time, Pletenchuk noted that this serves as a resource for them.

“The Black Sea Fleet has turned into a huge ‘black hole’ that simply sucks up budget funds, and in quite large amounts, because maintaining such an ‘organism’ is not cheap, yet it does not produce any significant results. They are still forced to use such resources, despite the dangers that may arise as a result, and they typically use them for just a few hours,” he explained.

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