Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, December 31, 2023
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Nicole Wolkov, Christina Harward, Karolina Hird, Riley Bailey, and Frederick W. Kagan
December 31, 2023, 5:10pm ET
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The Russian Federation may make use of the improved weather conditions in the Black Sea to launch another attack on Ukraine using both drones and missiles of various types, particularly Kalibr cruise missiles.
The cruiser Moskva, which was destroyed by the Ukrainian Navy in April 2022, had seven floors, an elevator and a swimming pool, and had undergone a major renovation just before the full-scale invasion; this flagship was a real pride of Russia, and it was precisely because of the presence of the Moskva vessel that Russia had a fleet, not a flotilla.