US or whatever NATO party with cruisers should lease a berth or two to make the home port of a pair of Tico’s (equivalent) to guarantee safe passage.
With operating costs of up to $200k/day per ship, and concerns over trigger-happy Russian warships, the coast of Romania sounds like a high-stress environment right now.
Zelensky outlined the perfect response. All Russian merchant ships are now legitimate military targets. Hit one and none will be able to get insurance. No insurance and no one will want to sail stock into Russian ports.
One note here – Danube delta is oftenly pretty crowded, but lots of ships have been re-routed to Izmail form Odesa, causing an enormous traffic jam, which includes other ships navigating through Danube.
Thanks stupid orcs for the new global inflation
Couldn’t they just closely follow the coast south, staying out of international waters? The Russians wouldn’t dare sink a ship in Romanian waters.
Unfortunately the same source (MarineTraffic) shows shipping to Mariupol, Novorossyisk and Rostov-on-Don continuing – and not just for Russian flagged vessels. It seems that the Ukrainian warning that traffic to Russia or Russian-occupied Ukraine might be attacked hasn’t had the desired effect so far.
This is where you realize when UN is a useless institution. UN should be able to allow a corridor with military surveillance and defense in order to haul safely grain from Ukraine to countries that need it
One of the problem that not many people are aware is the lack of pilot and pilot ships. One pilot can guide max 2 ships per day: one from to Sulina to Izmail/Reni, another one retour.
Doing this the Russians are 1 fuckup away from an Article 5 clusterfuck
Turkeys Navy should provide protection of all shipping lanes to and from Ukraine. Create a safe zone along the western Black Sea area
I seriously fucking hate that all these coward nations are letting this happen. Because you know what? China is watching. Now China knows it can just blockade Taiwan and nobody will lift a finger. They’ll capture Taiwan without firing a single shot at this rate. Grow a goddamn spine. If Russia attacks a civilian ship, destroy its black sea fleet
And now, let’s hurray ours delightfully friends Russians for their help. 1,2,3 ! No?
Amazing Turkish vanguard!
This is just outright piracy. Time for NATO to patrol Romanian and Ukrainian waters as part of a multinational anti-piracy force. This would enable them to defend against acts of piracy.
Muscovites are acting like pirates and others are okay with that
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US or whatever NATO party with cruisers should lease a berth or two to make the home port of a pair of Tico’s (equivalent) to guarantee safe passage.
With operating costs of up to $200k/day per ship, and concerns over trigger-happy Russian warships, the coast of Romania sounds like a high-stress environment right now.
Zelensky outlined the perfect response. All Russian merchant ships are now legitimate military targets. Hit one and none will be able to get insurance. No insurance and no one will want to sail stock into Russian ports.
One note here – Danube delta is oftenly pretty crowded, but lots of ships have been re-routed to Izmail form Odesa, causing an enormous traffic jam, which includes other ships navigating through Danube.
Thanks stupid orcs for the new global inflation
Couldn’t they just closely follow the coast south, staying out of international waters? The Russians wouldn’t dare sink a ship in Romanian waters.
Unfortunately the same source (MarineTraffic) shows shipping to Mariupol, Novorossyisk and Rostov-on-Don continuing – and not just for Russian flagged vessels. It seems that the Ukrainian warning that traffic to Russia or Russian-occupied Ukraine might be attacked hasn’t had the desired effect so far.
This is where you realize when UN is a useless institution. UN should be able to allow a corridor with military surveillance and defense in order to haul safely grain from Ukraine to countries that need it
One of the problem that not many people are aware is the lack of pilot and pilot ships. One pilot can guide max 2 ships per day: one from to Sulina to Izmail/Reni, another one retour.
Doing this the Russians are 1 fuckup away from an Article 5 clusterfuck
Turkeys Navy should provide protection of all shipping lanes to and from Ukraine. Create a safe zone along the western Black Sea area
I seriously fucking hate that all these coward nations are letting this happen. Because you know what? China is watching. Now China knows it can just blockade Taiwan and nobody will lift a finger. They’ll capture Taiwan without firing a single shot at this rate. Grow a goddamn spine. If Russia attacks a civilian ship, destroy its black sea fleet
And now, let’s hurray ours delightfully friends Russians for their help. 1,2,3 ! No?
Amazing Turkish vanguard!
This is just outright piracy. Time for NATO to patrol Romanian and Ukrainian waters as part of a multinational anti-piracy force. This would enable them to defend against acts of piracy.
Muscovites are acting like pirates and others are okay with that