There's some confusion in the reporting, but it seems as if Ukraine may have sunk the Black Sea flagship that was memorably told to go fuck itself by Ukrainian Marines. This would be a huge victory for Ukraine, because it's going to require the Russian Black Sea fleet to back off from the coast, especially near Odessa. Ukraine is getting British anti-ship missiles, too, so that will even the balance in the Black Sea. I would imagine that Ukraine has had to keep a relatively large defensive force near Odessa to protect against a landing behind their lines. If so, sidelining the Russia fleet allows them to transfer troops to the front near Mykolaiv.
Putin has already started threatening to move nuclear forces near the Baltics. As much as is prudently possible these sort of threats should be ignored. Russia is repeatedly showing its ass in Ukraine and they will replace that with bluster and threats. As long as that's all they are doing, the West shouldn't give them oxygen.
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