'This is all aimed at increasing the defense capability of both Russia and Abkhazia,' de facto authorities in the separatist Georgian region have said.
Russia could be paving the way for the construction of a new Black Sea naval base in a breakaway territory, new satellite imagery appears to show, in a move that could risk widening the Ukraine war as Moscow attempts to shield its naval assets from Kyiv's forces.
Russia uses the Black Sea to launch attacks on Ukraine but lost its Black Sea fleet flagship, the Mosvka, in a humiliating setback early on in the war.News of the new base in Abkhazia has raised concerns that Moscow could widen the war in Ukraine, pulling Georgia into the conflict. Tbilisi is hoping to join the European Union, which has supported Kyiv's resistance effort against the Kremlin.
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