Oleksandr Kovalenko, a military columnist of the website of Ukrainian OSINT NGO Information Resistance, has suggested his possible scenario of an attack by Russia on the Ukrainian strategic port city of Mariupol, Donetsk region, on the Sea of Azov.
“This must be a full-scale operation with massing the ground forces in the region along with amphibious operations from the Sea of Azov. But, as you know, the ‘DPR’ [‘Donetsk People’s Republic’] does not have any fleet to carry out such landing. And, given the concentration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in this sector, the Kremlin will simply have to resort to regular units of the Russian armed forces,” the expert told the Ukrainian news portal Apostrophe.
