The aggressor’s propaganda broadcasts the statement of the Governor of the Rostov Region Vasily Golubev about his intention to “purchase a “Meteor” with 120 seats in the river-sea class, which will allow … to expand the geography of travel … We can talk about Yeisk, we can talk potentially about Kerch and Yalta too”, while the information dumps of the aggressor try to omit the further clause about something “potential”, since on the “Meteor” you can go to Mars, but just “potentially”.
We wrote in the context of previous aggressor’s “announcements on Crimean shipping” that of the ones suitable for modern passenger transportation under the Russian control in the Black Sea waters, only one “Kometa” is now more or less operational, out of five laid down and two fully built, and that this is a ship equipped with a German “MTU” engine, it is used by the owner with a base in Novorossiysk for Caucasian transportation, and in occupied Sevastopol there is her “sister”, which, due to sanctions, “was supplied with an adapted Chinese engine” and is now trying to fuse this structure, unsuitable for normal navigation, to occupied Abkhazia, actually “for metal”.
In addition, we reported about June fakes from the general director of the shipping passenger company “Don” German Lopatkin about the criminal “launch” into occupied Kerch of “catamaran-type passenger boats with a capacity of up to 180 people” and that “the company plans to receive the first ship “Valdai 45R” in mid-September, the second – at the end of October this year” and allegedly “in the future the company also plans to purchase two Meteor 120M vessels”.
It is obvious that something “went wrong” with the “Valdai 45R” vessels and only “Meteors” remained on the aggressor’s “menu”; however, we have already written earlier that these vessels are being built by the sanctioned “Central Design Bureau for Hydrofoils”, that they are exclusively river transport and depend on the supply of European equipment, including engines from the German corporation “MAN SE”. At the same time, it was stated that both the “Valdai 45R”, designed for 45 people, and the “Meteor 120M”, designed for 120 people, are frankly unsuitable for sea navigation.
