Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
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Something to think about: during the Cold War, one of the assessed strategies of the Soviet Navy was offensive maritime mining operations. Basically, send a sub, or a few, loaded with mines to areas near an important port (of some nation) and put a bunch of mines down, then sub stays well out of territorial waters. .
Wait for the first ship (neutral or nation's ship) one to blow up a mine and see how cautious the {nation} gets.
I can see an op like that off of Odessa being already a part of a Russian Navy contingency plan.
you seem to be spot on, Lonewolf. Bloody Russkies, they never change.
"We received intelligence that the Russian Navy had laid sea mines on the approaches to Ukrainian ports with the aim of sinking commercial ships and blaming Ukraine", - US National Security Council spokesman Adam Hodge