Also remember it would be a less costly route for Russian pipelines
for Natural Gas.
Also remember Mykolayiv was the center of large ship construction
in the former Soviet Union. All the carriers were constructed
there.
Now the Russians have to rely on Murmansk, Polyamy, Severomorsk,
Severodvinsk, and St. Petersburg. Four of those ports are on the
Arctic Ocean.
Putin has ambitions of a renewed super power status and it is
nothing without a super-carrier like the Americans have. All Soviet
carriers were built in Mykolayiv.
[email protected] wrote:
>
> No pasaran
>
> http://gazeta.ua/articles/politics/_hersonska-oblrada-skazala-rishuche-ni-proyavam-separatizmu/545723
>
> Mykolaiv and Odesa also out of reach. BTW Odesa has become the new
> effective base of Ukraine on the Black Sea (temporarily).
>
> Putin had hoped to control the whole basin by adding Kherson,
> Mykolaiv, and Odesa to the Crimea. He could then have territorial
> contact with the Transdnister republic rogues in Moldavia.
>
> He could still try. But "local" forces are too weak.
>
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