The Sun: “Ukraine, a nation without a navy, has sunk or severely damaged at least 20 vessels of Russia’s Black Sea fleet”

James Brooke, a Contributor for The New York Sun. Since 2006 Mr. Brooke has worked for Bloomberg News; Voice of America; The Khmer Times in Cambodia; The Kyiv Post in Ukraine; and the Ukraine Business Journal, a business news site. 

1. In a campaign that rewrites naval warfare tactics, Ukraine, a nation without a navy, has sunk or severely damaged at least 20 vessels of Russia’s Black Sea fleet.
2. Once a Kremlin “red line” for Ukrainian military action, Crimea has been hit so hard that it increasingly is defenseless. Ukrainian drone and missile attacks have taken out most of the Russian  Surface to Air Missile, or SAM, systems  in Western Crimea, the land that juts into the Black Sea, 100 miles south of Odessa. With drones and missiles hitting military targets almost daily, Russia has moved its most modern warships 250 miles to the east, to Novorossiysk, a port on Russia’s territory.

Full article here: The New York Sun, http://surl.li/mzqqw