@Render @jerichotasker chatter on Analysis Twitter is around this being a distraction, with a real assault by sea hitting Odessa.

@JWilliams @jerichotasker Only 3 LST's in the Sea of Azov flotilla. That's not much of a landing.

I don't think the Russians are going to do any naval landings anywhere on the Black Sea/Azov Sea coasts, at least not initially. Any kind of resistance and such a landing turns into a disaster.

I'm assuming that they're going to use the LST's, all of them, as ferry boats to reinforce a bridgehead for a lower Dnieper river crossing. Especially if they lose one or more of those bridges.

@Render @jerichotasker OSINT also noted the ships made sure to be seen, and we're riding high in the water.