The Fleet of the Russian Federation from Crimea to the eastern part of the Black Sea breaks Putin's plans - the media
More than two years after the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow's control over Crimea is experiencing true tension. Since February 2022, the Russian Federation suffered enormous losses from Ukraine to its Black Sea Fleet. Moscow controlled Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula in Ukraine in 2014, but Kiev promised to return it.
The US Navy Viecadmiral, Robert Murett, said that Russia has won in mainland Ukraine in recent weeks of victory, but "Ukraine has mostly won the Battle in the Black Sea. " The captain of the Navy of Ukraine in retirement Andriy Ryzhenko said that over the last decade, Russia intended to use its Black Sea bases in Crimea to direct Russian force through the sea to the south of Ukraine.
Ukraine has expanded its access to Eastern Crimea, including the Russian port of Theodosius and a vital Kerch bridge that connects the peninsula with the Krasnodar region of Russia. The constant attacks of Ukraine - Kiev usually uses marine drones and winged rockets, set by the West - pushed Russia to the East into the Black Sea, threatening the safety of the Russian Federation around the Crimean peninsula.
"There is no other choice in Russia than to move to the east," said Daniel Rice, a former special adviser to the head of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, who is now President of Kyiv University. He believes that Moscow is in this way loses control of Crimea. Russia was forced to expand its port infrastructure in the Eastern Black Sea since its objects around Crimea, such as its main base in Sevastopol, is now under threat.
Moscow has moved some of its resources to the Novorossiysk, Black Sea Port City, located in the internationally recognized territory of Russia. It was also reported that the Kremlin plans a new military base at the port of Okramchire in Abkhazia. This would put Russian Black Sea assets even further from the coastline of Ukraine. According to Ryzhenko, Moscow is now much cautious keeping its new, large ships in the Crimea, and transferred several to Novorossiysk.