Russia has been chased out of the sea.
Need a glass bottom boat tour in the Black Sea for some of the highlights.
The Moskva is performing its submarine role as diligently as ever!
Should have asked Zelensky for permission
Putin: “I consent.”
VMF: “I consent.”
Zelenskyy: “I don’t.”
Isn’t there somebody you forgot to ask?
To be fair, all those vehicles consume fuel
I suggest russia start researching how to power naval ships with a massive engine of stationary bicycles powered by buff russians converting sweat into electricity. That will be so manly of them, Ukraine will never be able to beat that!
Think of it like a fly-by-wire upgrade to the flintstones car concept.
Aw that’s too bad. I am sure Ukraine could not hit a convoy of slowly moving extremely expensive and irreplaceable assets at a scheduled place and time.
“The realms of ocean and the fields of air / Are mine, not his. By fatal lot to me / The liquid empire fell, and trident of the sea.”
- Neptune, Virgil’s Aeneid
Do they still have a navy?
Does a fish shit in the woods?
It’s mostly a submarine fleet now.
Yes. They have several fleets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sea_Fleet
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Fleet_(Russia)
Under the relevant international agreements, Turkey may close the Turkish Straits during wartime, and chose to exercise that option. After Turkey closed the Turkish Straits, ships not based in the Black Sea were not allowed to traverse the Turkish Straits and enter the Black Sea.
So basically, the fighting has mostly been between the vessels of the Black Sea Fleet and Ukraine; the others cannot approach Ukraine and have been mostly uninvolved in the war.
The Black Sea Fleet has seen major losses.
The ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War led to major operations and losses due to Ukrainian missiles and umanned surface vehicles including the flagship Moskva and several landing vessels. Additionally, there was a 2023 Ukrainian missile strike against the Black Sea Fleet HQ in Sevastopol itself.[8][9] After another attack on 24 March 2024, a Ukraine spokesperson said that they had disabled or damaged one third of the fleet during the war.[10] In June 2024, Ukraine claimed it was now highly likely that they had destroyed all of the Black Sea Fleet’s missile carrier capability based in Crimea.[11] By early 2026, it was reported that, despite no longer having a navy, Ukraine’s surface, sub-surface and aerial drone capabilities had effectively driven the Russian fleet from open waters, forcing it to seek shelter in ports on the eastern Black Sea that themselves were no longer fully secure.[12]
That being said, I would assume that to the extent that the Kremlin can, it has redirected resources away from the other fleets and to the conflict. I doubt that they have been well-resourced recently (even by Russian Navy standards, which has seen serious under-resourcing over time).
