Shelling of ports is Russia’s new strategy against the maritime corridor, Klymenko

All the vessels on which Russia carried out the latest missile attacks are owned or operated by companies from EU countries.

Andriy Klymenko, head of the Monitoring Group of the Institute of Black Sea Strategic Studies, announced this.

According to him, the daily monitoring and analysis of the functioning of the Ukrainian maritime corridor makes it possible to say today that the shelling of the ports of Greater Odessa is not a temporary phenomenon, but a new strategy.

“The goal of this strategy is to physically make the operation of the Ukrainian maritime corridor impossible,” noted Andriy Klymenko.

He also emphasized that all six ships that were damaged as a result of missile strikes on the port infrastructure (one of them – the Greek Optima – twice) are owned or operated by companies from EU countries.

So, vessels connected to Greece, Latvia, Portugal and Poland were affected.

“At the same time, the largest number of ships in the ports of Great Odesa belongs to Turkish shipowners – 61 (28.5% in September). Shipowners from Greece own almost twice as many – 36 (16.8% in September). That is, the vessels of Turkish shipowners somehow do not statistically avoid being hit,” the expert said.

We will remind, on October 14, the Russians attacked the port of Odesa with ballistics. Civilian vessels were damaged: the Belize-flagged NS Moon and the Palau-flagged bulk carrier Optima.