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Hypersonic rocket-propelled aircraft, has opened up to the French business magazine Challenges about its support to Ukraine’s military.
https://www.kyivpost.com/post/27513

BLACK SEA -- Black Sea Successes and Ukraine’s Path to Victory. February 5, 2024. Ukraine’s operational success in the Northwestern Black Sea offers a beacon of light for Western support, could chart the way to eventual victory over Russia.
Photo: Fighters of the 37 separate Marines Brigade hone their combat skills while traveling on the water. 
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Predictably Black Sea Grain Initiative, facilitated by UN and Turkey, collapsed after Russian obstruction and its ultimate destruction by the Kremlin in July, followed by a renewed drone and missile campaign against Ukrainian port infrastructure. Russia struck the historic heart of Odesa too.Yet Ukraine pushed back forcefully at Russia’s attempt to resume its blockade and opened a unilateral maritime corridor that hugged the shore all the way to NATO territory.
While this corridor started with mostly outward traffic, it has substantially increased shipment volumes, reaching close to 20 million tons of agricultural and non-agricultural cargoes in its first six months, thus nearing pre-war levels. It is on course to surpass the numbers achieved under the grain deal, which saw some 30 million tons transported annually, but which also gave Russia de facto boycott powers.

How did this happen?
Ukraine organized a highly effective military campaign against Russian targets in Crimea and the Black Sea Fleet. This combined Ukrainian audacity with a mix of domestic and Western capabilities, including drones and long-range Anglo-French cruise missiles.This sustained campaign, a continuation of Ukraine’s 2022 operations, which saw the sinking of flagship Moskva & recovery of Snake Island in 2022, intensified last summer with several successful.It led to destruction of Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol as senior commanders held a planning meeting & some 20% of the fleet, early August, drones traveled 800km (500 miles) to hit Russian ship near Novorossiysk, in Northeast Black Sea, where a growing number of Russian vessels were seeking safety. Kyiv said Russian ports were considered a military threat, potentially disrupting its exports too.

The result is that Russian naval vessels are no longer safe, as sinking of missile corvette Ivanovets on Jan 31 underlined. So Kremlin’s grip on Ukraine Black Sea’s international waters has loosened, much of the international community stood idle in the face of Russian threats against international navigation and food security, Kyiv called the Kremlin’s bluff and restored order. At the same time, the improvement of air defense in the region has seen Ukraine bringing down Russian aircraft in the South — including three Su-34 bombers in a missile ambush — a deterrent to Moscow’s aerial campaigns.

As a result, while Ukraine’s land counteroffensive faltered in the fall, it now holds the initiative in the Northern Black Sea and can claim operational success in sea warfare. 

There are key lessons to be drawn from this.
https://cepa.org/article/black-sea-succe...o-victory/