Conflict over Crimea: Black Sea Fleet ships relocated – Russia improvises. Russia apparently repurposes material in Torosk, a Crimean metropolis.
Ukraine is doing well on the Black Sea; Russia's fleet is gradually giving up its sails. Crimea was already occupied by Russia in 2014 and forms the bridgehead for Putin's fantasies of integrating Ukraine into the Russian Federation - and also for his plans to once again emerge internationally as a naval power. The Black Sea is almost half a million square kilometers in size and Russia has long pursued an interest in ice-free access to it.