Sebastopol Once Again, and the Coming Winter War

Nadin Brzezinski
4 min readNov 5, 2023

Yesterday, the Zaluv Shipyard near Kerch was hit. The target was the Askold, a new Calibre missile carrier without sea trials. She is that new. Here was the report yesterday from Cheka GPU:

BREAKING: Russian warship Askold lost due to a Storm Shadow in the Cape of Good Cope.

The Ministry of Defense confirmed that today a strike was carried out by 15 cruise missiles on the shipbuilding plant named after. Butomy in Kerch. As a result of a cruise missile hit, a ship located at the plant was damaged. According to preliminary information, this is the Project 22800 Karakurt ship, which is a carrier of Caliber cruise missiles.

Now, I did not run with this because I was waiting for satellite images. I have learned that, usually, they are more revealing than just the written word. And indeed, they have appeared. According to Russia Tomorrow, this is what they saw:

Satellite images of the Zaliv shipyard in Kerch after missile attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces appeared

Photos from November 5, published by Schemes journalists, show the site of the destruction at the plant and a military vessel that also appears to be damaged.

“According to my information, on November 4, at the time of the explosions, there was only one ship in Kerch capable…

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Nadin Brzezinski
Nadin Brzezinski

Written by Nadin Brzezinski

Historian by training. Former day to day reporter. Sometimes a geek who enjoys a good miniatures game. You can find me at CounterSocial, Mastodon and rarely FB

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