Russia Ukraine war, page-212227

Poor old Andy, even when you think you win, you lose. One the Russians have published pics of the ships at dock still, two even if they did it does not matter anymore? Why, read on:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2024/03/24/ukraine-just-blew-up-two-more-russian-landing-ships-its-too-late-to-matter/?sh=38516df2144a

But the hits have come too late to serve another war aim: strangling the Russian field armies in occupied southern Ukraine. As recently as a few weeks ago, the Kremlin counted on the Black Sea Fleet’s landing ships, as well as the rail and road bridge connecting Russia to Crimea, to supply its southern regiments and brigades.Back then, it was possible effectively to cut off the southern Russian forces by sinking landing ships and striking the bridge—two things Ukrainian forces did with some regularity.No longer. A herculean effort by Russian engineers has added a new railway connecting Rostov in southern Russia to the Russian-occupied Ukrainian cities of Donetsk and—in the south—Berdyansk and Mariupol. The new rail line decreases by days the time it takes to move a freight car from southern Russia to southern Ukraine.Railroads are much harder to interdict than ships are.All that is to say, the Russians no longer depend so much on their landing ships to supply their forces along the southern front. So while it’s gratifying for friends of free Ukraine to see Russian Ropuchas burn—it also is an increasingly meaningless spectacle.

And that is a Western media source Andy.