{"id":29383,"date":"2023-05-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=29383"},"modified":"2023-05-15T09:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T07:03:43","slug":"ukraine-war-what-is-the-russian-navy-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/ukraine-krieg-was-macht-die-russische-marine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war: What is the Russian navy doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

For a good two weeks now, NATO navies have been accompanying a Russian formation on its way from the Mediterranean around Western Europe to the harbours and shipyards of the Baltic Fleet. The small group is led by the frigate \"Admiral Grigorovich\" (494), the type ship of the three combat units built for the Black Sea Fleet - intended as an escort for the cruiser \"Slava\" and now itself in flagship duty (\"Admiral Makarov\").<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Returning convoy off Gibraltar. Photo: Spanish Navy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She is followed by two corvettes of the Steregushchiy class (105 metres, 2,200 tonnes), \"Stoikiy\" (545) and \"Soobrazitelniy\" (532), which originally belong in the Baltic Sea and have already been mentioned in connection with the acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines. However, these two were seen entering the Mediterranean near Gibraltar in mid-October and have now been deployed for more than six months. The faithful support tanker \"Kama\" (116 metres, 9,000 tonnes) was also on board, having accompanied the \"Admiral Gorshkov\" (type ship, 125 metres, 4,000 tonnes) to South Africa and back via Iran to Tartus in Syria. However, \"Kama\" now turned back towards the Mediterranean after a final fuel supply at the British Isles in order to ensure supplies at sea.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Admiral Grigorovich\" in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Repair of \"Admiral Grigorovich\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The frigate \"Admiral Grigorovich\" (together with a Kilo-class submarine) had been transferred from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean before the outbreak of war to reinforce the larger units assembled there from the North and Pacific fleets. The calculation of quickly shifting the focus from a counterweight to NATO forces in the Mediterranean through the Bosporus to complete the Black Sea fleet, if necessary, came to nothing when Turkey closed the Bosporus to all military traffic in accordance with the law after the outbreak of war. Now Tartus is sufficient as a base on the Syrian coast for Russian units for a while, but repairs above a certain size can be ruled out there. So it was probably time for the Grigorovich frigate to dive one or two levels deeper in terms of maintenance and, if necessary, repairs. The facilities of the Baltic Fleet off Kaliningrad and St Petersburg are the closest. The convoy arrived in Baltiysk on 10 May - the headquarters of the Baltic shipyard Yantar (Bernstein), where the \"Grigorovich\" was laid down a good twelve years ago.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Soobrazitelniy\" in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NATO escort<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Spanish, Portuguese, British and Irish units observed the transit from close range. The Danish frigates HDMS \"Thetis\" and HDMS \"Peter Willemoes\" were entrusted with escorting the convoy for the last few miles into the Baltic Sea from Skagen to Bornholm. Germany used the \"Potsdam\" of the Federal Police.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What remains in the Mediterranean?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The two heavy submarine tandems consisting of nuclear cruisers (Slava class) and ASW frigates (Udaloy class) of the North and Pacific fleets (\"Marshal Ustinov\"-\"Vitseadmiral Kulakov\" and \"Varyag\"-\"Admiral Tributs\") were already withdrawn from the Mediterranean theatre of war in November last year and at the beginning of this year. Now only a small remnant remains in the sea area, albeit with hypersonic weapons on the frigate. There are currently five Russian units in the Mediterranean: the frigate \"Admiral Gorshkov\", the Kilo-class submarine \"Krasnodar\", the corvette \"Orehovo-Zyevo\" (Buyan-M class, 74 metres, 950 tonnes), the minesweeper \"Vladimir Yemelyanov\" (Alexandrite class, 62 metres, 900 tonnes) and the aforementioned tanker \"Kama\". <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Conclusion<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Apart from individual missile strikes by submarines from Novorossiysk against Ukrainian infrastructure, the naval forces no longer play a decisive role in the Russian war in Ukraine - and certainly not in the Mediterranean!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"Stoikiy\" in the Baltic Sea. Photo: Michael Nitz<\/figcaption><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seit gut zwei Wochen schon begleiten NATO-Marinen einen russischen Verband auf seinem Weg aus dem Mittelmeer um Westeuropa herum bis zu den H\u00e4fen und Werfteinrichtungen der Baltischen Flotte. Angef\u00fchrt wird die kleine Gruppe von der Fregatte \"Admiral Grigorovich\" (494), dem Typschiff der drei f\u00fcr die Schwarzmeer-Flotte gebauten Kampfeinheiten - vorgesehen als Eskorte f\u00fcr den Kreuzer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,45,42],"tags":[5612,5611,2512,338,388,997,331,5610,196,326,2534,2823],"class_list":["post-29383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-news","tag-admiral-gorschkow","tag-admiral-grigorovich","tag-baltische-flotte","tag-fregatte","tag-korvette","tag-kreuzer","tag-mittelmeer","tag-nato-marine","tag-ostsee","tag-russische-marine","tag-schwarzmeer-flotte","tag-ukraine-krieg"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29383\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}