War in Europe

Ukraine: Black Sea Submarine Missile Launches — and More

Down the rabbit hole again as a story leads me astray in the Bosphorus

James Marinero, MSc, MBA
The Dock on the Bay
7 min readJul 21, 2022

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Reportedly the two remaining Varshavianka class submarines in Sevastopol (report dated 29 June 2022). Image credit: https://ru.krymr.com/a/news-sevastopol-vyvedeny-pyat-rossiyskikh-podvodnykh-lodok/31921821.html

Another week, another atrocity

Another week, another large-scale civilian atrocity in Ukraine. All atrocities are disgusting, but mass killing by targeting city centres in daytime is beyond words. Russia will take generations to repair its image.

Not content to fire expensive X-101 (Kh-101) cruise missiles from strategic bombers hundreds of miles away over the Caspian Sea, Russia is now is hitting Ukraine’s cities with Kalibr missiles launched from submarines in the Black Sea.

Zelenskiy calls Russian missile attack on Vinnytsia an ‘open act of terrorism’

The death toll from a Russian missile attack in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine has climbed to 22, including three children, according to the head of the national police in Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko.

Dozens of people are still unaccounted for, Ukraine’s state emergency service said. A further 52 people, including four children, have been hospitalised, it said. 34 are in serious condition.

The Guardian

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James Marinero, MSc, MBA
The Dock on the Bay

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