The Russians were planning a naval landing near Odesa in February-March 2022, but only in case of a decisive success on land, in the Mykolaiv region, according to the Navy Commander, Vice Admiral Oleksii Neizhpapa. “As a rule, amphibious operations are not the main type of operations in full-scale combat operations. It is an auxiliary operation in the coastal direction. To conduct it, the enemy must first succeed on land. Not to capture Mykolaiv, although that was also in his plans, but to bypass it from the north to encircle Odesa. And that’s when it made sense to make the landing,” the Navy …