re: #175 Justanotherhuman

Novorossiysk is a Russian Black Sea port; I imagine they’re being sent to Crimea.

That or further West. The Black Sea fleet as a good number of landing craft, though they’d need all of ‘em to move a force that size.

I also noted that some of those BTRs are the BTR-82A model with the low profile turret with a 14.5mm KPV machine gun replaced by a higher profile turret that per Jane’s mounts “a two-axis stabilised 30 mm 2A72 dual-feed cannon and a 7.62 mm PKTM machine gun (MG), all aimed through TKN-4GA-02 sights.” This is the same cannon type mounted on the BMP-2. The full write-up for this vehicle is here. it gives some good info about the BTR in general as well, and as such it makes good reading about the armored vehicle most often seen in the Ukraine Incursion.