You can’t trust any reporting coming out of Russia. They lie. They downplay losses. You see those videos of burning refineries and Russia will claim that some minor fire broke out.
Just think about it: There have been 28 vessels hit in this night alone. The other nights before that were devastating for Russia, too. Ukraine claims 76 hits in 6 days and is showing the video evidence for that. So whatever that number is, there is a lot of destruction in the Sea of Azov going on right now. Ukrainian drones are flying around, which makes Search & Rescue operations hard. Normal maritime SAR operations rely on civilial vessels going to the rescue area and for them to pick up people from life boats and on helicopters and planes to search for survivors. There also might be some specialized vessels built for putting out fires. There is no way that normal SAR is able to deal with 76 vessels in 6 days or 28 vessels which are on fire. Even when there are no drones around trying to kill you. So basically nobody knows how many people died, because there is nobody coming to help those ships. They might be giving some kind of status update via radio, but as you know: Russia is not telling the truth.
You can’t trust any reporting coming out of Russia. They lie. They downplay losses. You see those videos of burning refineries and Russia will claim that some minor fire broke out.
Just think about it: There have been 28 vessels hit in this night alone. The other nights before that were devastating for Russia, too. Ukraine claims 76 hits in 6 days and is showing the video evidence for that. So whatever that number is, there is a lot of destruction in the Sea of Azov going on right now. Ukrainian drones are flying around, which makes Search & Rescue operations hard. Normal maritime SAR operations rely on civilial vessels going to the rescue area and for them to pick up people from life boats and on helicopters and planes to search for survivors. There also might be some specialized vessels built for putting out fires. There is no way that normal SAR is able to deal with 76 vessels in 6 days or 28 vessels which are on fire. Even when there are no drones around trying to kill you. So basically nobody knows how many people died, because there is nobody coming to help those ships. They might be giving some kind of status update via radio, but as you know: Russia is not telling the truth.