BBC website reported that Russian forces are ‘not ready yet to launch a sea-based operation against the southern port city (of Odesa) as they haven’t established troops on the ground’ there, says Honorary Trustee and Academic Advisor, Prof Steven Haines. While this may well be the case about a ground assault on the port city – it is by no means the whole story. Odesa has not escaped assault. All the available evidence strongly suggests Russia’s naval forces have most certainly been launching...