“In the Black Sea, a key theater of the Kremlin’s war, Kyiv continues to strike costly blows”, – David Brennan.

“In the Black Sea, a key theater of the Kremlin’s war, Kyiv continues to strike costly blows”, – David Brennan, Newsweek’s Diplomatic Correspondent covering world politics and conflicts from London with a focus on NATO, the European Union, and the Russia-Ukraine War.

1. “Russia’s Black Sea Fleet is near-perpetually under fire in Moscow’s grinding war against an enemy that has no significant conventional naval assets. The story of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has been one of repeated failure for the numerically superior aggressor, one armed with fearsome home-grown technology touted as world-leading and yet unable to subdue a smaller but nimbler foe. Nowhere is this truer than in the Black Sea, a key theater of the Kremlin’s war, where Kyiv continues to strike costly blows… The Zaliv shipyard in the Russian-occupied Crimean city of Kerch provided the stage for the Black Sea Fleet’s latest humiliation.”

2. “Ukraine has embarked on a broad strategy to demilitarize the Black Sea Fleet. Repeated maritime successes have been supported by a steady drip of commando and drone raids on Crimea, chipping away at Russia’s defensive networks on the occupied peninsula… Already, Russian vessels will not approach within around 200 miles of the Ukrainian coastline, fearing attacks by naval drones and the Neptune anti-ship missiles that sank the Moskva in April 2022. Reports have also suggested that Russia has moved some of its most-advanced assets out of the home ports following recent Ukrainian attacks, even relocating some to the Sea of Azov.“

Full article here: Newsweek, http://surl.li/mzqqw