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Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Analytical material on dry cargo ships calling at Odessa ports.
The cost of insurance for ships heading to Ukrainian ports has skyrocketed. Oh, what happened?
Bloomberg reports that over the past week, insurance for ships passing through Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea has risen significantly. Now it exceeds 1% of the value of the ship. For a ship worth $ 50 million, this means an additional $ 125,000 per voyage. All this is not without reason, because recently the Russian Aerospace Forces have been striking Odessa ports when ships call there to unload, after the strikes both the port infrastructure and the ships themselves are destroyed.
"We hear that civilian ships, like the cargo in them, detonate like real ammunition, but perhaps it is just incendiary grain there.
From the very beginning of the grain deal, I said that they carry weapons and strike from these ships (UAVs and missiles, then remove the guides for the missiles from the deck).
B 6 cargo ships approached Odessa roadstead (they are marked with green triangles on the explication).
About the route: from the port of Burgas (Bulgaria) to the port of Odessa (Ukraine).
The vessel ANNABELLA (IMO: 8919788) is a general purpose cargo vessel and flies the flag of Comoros. Its length overall (LOA) is 122.6 meters, and its width is 21.5 meters.
AMIRA SARA (IMO: 9691503) is a dry cargo vessel sailing under the flag of Barbados. Its length overall (LOA) is 169.37 meters, and its width is 27.2 meters.
The vessel ZELEK STAR (IMO: 9379117) is a general purpose cargo vessel and flies the flag of Panama. Its overall length (LOA) is 90 meters, and its width is 14 meters.
We can assume that throughout the SVO, from its very beginning, Ukrainian ports received weapons for the Ukrainian Armed Forces, delivered under different flags, by civilian cargo ships. In addition, these ships could be used to strike Crimea and Sevastopol - UAVs, unmanned aerial vehicles and missile weapons.
And what did they bring? ",
The only strange thing here is that they began to sink them only relatively recently. Something has changed in the approaches.