Repeated Ukrainian drone and cruise-missile attacks have undermined Russia's hold on the strategic Black Sea region.
Russia's beleaguered Black Sea Fleet appears to have largely abandoned its major Crimean naval bases under the pressure of regular Ukrainian drone, missile, and commando attacks, recent satellite images suggest.Open source intelligence researcher MT Anderson posted Planet Labs images to X, formerly known as Twitter, taken on April 6 and showing three key Russian naval bases in the Black Sea—Sevastopol and Feodosia in Crimea, and Novorossiysk in Russia's Krasnodar Krai region.
'Sevastopol has traditionally served as Russia's primary power projection center for the Black Sea region. It is home to the Black Sea Fleet headquarters building—which was destroyed by a cruise-missile strike in September 2023—and important dry dock facilities, which were also destroyed by cruise missiles along with an attack submarine and landing ship that same month.The Crimean port of Feodosia around 100 miles east of Sevastopol has also been the subject of attacks.
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