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The new strategy of the Russian fleet stationed in the Black Sea is one of caution after a series of Ukrainian naval drone strikes decimated Putin's navy in the region. Moscow's ships have been targeted by Ukraine throughout the war: the aim was to attack Putin in Crimea, which serves as Moscow's central logistics hub and which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has vowed to recapture. “An interesting incident occurred recently when the Russians sent two naval units to escort their ships from the Bosphorus. It doesn't happen often, just once a month. “However, at a certain point the boats turned around and headed back,” said Dmytro Pletenchuk, spokesman for the Ukrainian navy. It is unclear what the reason for the turnaround was, but Pletenchuk speculated that the ship's commanders may have been aware of a threat. “The ships were forced to move along the Turkish border and practically hid in Turkish territorial waters. “So they didn’t take the shortest route that they would normally have taken, but fled,” the spokesman added.
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Newsweek noted that Osint analysts have identified a number of similar events in the Black Sea involving the Russian fleet. “Very, very strange,” Yörük Işık, one of the analysts, wrote on “Traffic is suspended due to fog.” Sparta IV turns around and heads towards the Aegean Sea.” Işık then added: “The Russian tanker Yaz, who normally transports kerosene from the Feodosia oil terminal to the Russian Air Force operating in Syria, also makes the mysterious U-turn after reaching the Bosphorus. “You don't dare to sail the Black Sea?”
An analysis by the British Ministry of Defense shows that Russia's tactics in the Black Sea have proven inadequate: “The defensive posture adopted to mitigate Ukraine's unconventional approach to naval warfare is not working as expected.” The Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank, reached a similar conclusion: Ukraine's successes in the Black Sea forced the Navy to change its operational models. And that's why Moscow is moving some ships from its main base in Sevastopol in Crimea. Ukraine does not have a large navy, but has extensively used naval drones to carry out targeted attacks against the Russians, resulting in the loss of several landing ships, Tarantul-class corvettes, a submarine and Russia's flagship, the Moskva.
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