Seems like Ukraine has always assumed that this is the case too - based on the massive resources they’ve put into keeping the Donbas line from moving throughout the war, and the risks they’re taking now of being encircled.
Whoever ask why bomb this ship? Well it seems to have stopped any unloading at the dock for now, not to mention the fuel and supplies destroyed. This dock has been resupplying the forces sieging Mariupol.
Also there was a video on Russian TV of this exact dock circulating for a day before the attack.
Heartbreaking. Hopefully when the war is over she can get her parents to visit Ukraine and see all the damage the Ukrainians supposedly inflicted on themselves.
Pshhh - you call that a yacht? All these years of fealty and instrumental role in Putin’s dictatorship, and all Medvedev gets is that? That’s like the boat that fits inside the oligarchs’ yachts. Weak.
Prior to recent events, I had no idea that the term for seizing property in Russian is “to arrest”, same as for a person. I’ll let others decide if there is any deeper psychological aspect to that.
The think I don’t get with these crazy billionaire yachts is why they all still look like boring boats. Sharks, imagine a shipbuilder who made made mega-yachts in the shape of Georgian revival mcmansions?