Tag: Black Sea

Black Sea – Black Sea incident is Russia telling the same old story (Keir Giles, Chatham House)

HMS Defender entered the Black Sea knowing it would be an eventful visit. Between friendly port stops in Ukraine and Georgia, passing by the...

Black Sea – Black Sea Incident Shows Russia’s Determination to Claim Waters Illegally (Caitlin M. Kenney , Defense One)

Amid the confusion about just what happened when Russian forces fired near a Royal Navy destroyer in the Black Sea on Wednesday, it’s important to remember just what...

Black Sea – What Really Happened in the Black Sea? A Victory for Russian Disinformation (Elisabeth Braw, Defense One)

On Wednesday, war almost broke out in the Black Sea. Or so it seemed, as news outlets, Twitter users, and state media conveyed accounts...

Black Sea – Storm warning in the Black Sea: Is it time for a new security strategy? (Alina Frolova, Stephen J. Blank, Chatham House)

Storm warning in the Black Sea: Is it time for a new security strategy? (chathamhouse.org)

Russia/Crimea/Black Sea – Crimea: The Expanding Military Capabilities of Russia’s Area Denial Zone in the Black Sea (The Jamestown

Sergey Sukhankin Two important and connected developments in the second half of April—military exercises in Crimea (RIA Novosti, April 22) and the wider growing tensions...

Russia/Ukraine/Black Sea – Moscow Pulls Back Land Forces From Ukrainian Border but Not Its Navy in Black Sea (The Jamestown Foundation)

Paul Goble Many observers are treating Russia’s pullback of land forces from the Ukrainian border as the end of the crisis—even some of those experts...

(Egypt/Russia/Black Sea/Turkey) Egyptian-Russian Naval Exercises in the Black Sea: Strategic Balancing against Turkey? (Ridvan Bari Urcosta, The Jamestown Foundation)

In November 2020, Russia and Egypt conducted their first joint naval exercises in the Black Sea. The Bridge of Friendship-2020 naval drills brought the Egyptian Navy...

BLACK SEA/USA – The Black Sea: How America can avoid a great-power conflict (Philip Breedlove and Michael E. O’Hanlon, Brookings)

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/15/the-black-sea-how-america-can-avoid-a-great-power-conflict/