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Trained Russian Navy Dolphins are Protecting Black Sea Naval Base, Satellite...
H I Sutton Illustration for USNI News Russia has deployed trained dolphins during its invasion of Ukraine to protect a Black Sea naval base, USNI News has learned. The Russian Navy has placed two...
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U.S. Missiles Sent to Ukraine Aren’t Easily Replaced, Panel Tells Senate
U.S. Marines with Charlie Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, fire an M98A2 Javelin guided missile system during a field-fire demonstration as part of the Anti-Tank...
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‘More Ugliness’ Coming For Ukraine, Says Former Top NATO Commander
A street in Mariupol Ukraine from the Facebook page of the 36th Marine Brigade on April 7, 2022. A “whole lot more ugliness” for the Ukrainian people and countryside is likely to unfold over the coming...
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Ukrainian Grain Still Trapped By Russian Naval Blockade, Pentagon Says
Wheat fields in midsummer in Ukraine, Oblast Lviv in 2012. Raimond Spekking Photo The Russian blockade around Ukraine has continued to prevent the country from exporting its largest good: grain. Since...
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Ukraine Will Make ‘No Deals’ To Cede Territory to End War With Russia, Says...
UK MoD’s Ukraine Conflict Map on March 31, 2022 Ukrainian leaders will make “no deals” for peace that cede territory to Russia, as the nation is braced for a long war lasting into next winter,...
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Overview of U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine
The following is the June 6, 2022, Congressional Research Service In Focus report, U.S. Security Assistance to Ukraine. From the report The United States has been a leading provider of security...
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Turkey Pursuing Talks with Russia While Stalling Sweden, Finland NATO...
Rota based Arleigh-Burke class guided missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) transits Bosphorus towards the Black Sea on June 26, 2021. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission Turkey has no problem...
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Biden Administration Basing Two More Destroyers in Rota, Spain
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) departs Naval Station Rota, Spain, June 1, 2022. U.S. Navy Photo This story has been updated with additional information...
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USS Bulkeley Leaves for Homeport Shift to Rota; USS Delbert D. Black Leaves...
The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Bulkeley (DDG-84) departs Naval Station Norfolk August 4, 2022, commencing the ship’s scheduled homeport shift to Rota, Spain, as part of the U.S....
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U.S., NATO Need to Turn Attention to Black Sea, European Policy Experts Say
Amphibious warship RTS Olenegorsky Gornyak (012) entering the Black Sea on Feb. 9, 2022. Photo by Yörük Işık used with permission More strategic focus needs to be on the Black Sea as the Russian...
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Russian Navy Moving Kilo Attack Boats to Safety from Ukraine Strike Risk,...
Improved Kilo-class (Varshavyanka-class) attack submarine. RIA Novosti Photo Russia has “almost certainly” moved its Black Sea Fleet Kilo-class submarines from Sevastopol, Crimea, to the Novorossiysk...
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Romanian Navy Needs Minehunters to Keep Black Sea Safe for Ships, Navy Chief...
Lt. Remus Lepri (F-24) in port in Constanta, Romania on May 7, 2022. US Army Photo WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Romanian Navy wants more minehunters to keep merchant ships safer in the Black Sea, its top...
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Suspected Ukrainian Explosive Sea Drone Made From Recreational Watercraft Parts
H I Sutton Image used with permission A small, unmanned watercraft of unknown origin washed up from the Black Sea on the shore of Crimea, near Russia’s naval base in Sevastopol, late last month....
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Russian Sea-Based Kalibr Cruise Missiles Part of New Round of Strikes in Ukraine
A Russian Kalibr test launch. Russian MoD Photo Russia has continued to use long-range cruise missiles fired from ships in the Black Sea to hit civilian targets in Ukraine over the last several weeks,...
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Moscow Cancels Black Sea Grain Deal After Large-Scale Drone Attack on Russian...
Screen shot from a video showing a Russian ship from a camera board a suspected surface attack drone. Russia said it suspended its participation in a United Nations-Turkey-brokered deal to allow grain...
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Russia Resumes Participation in Grain Export Deal After Sevastopol Attack
Screenshot from a video showing a Russian ship from a camera board a suspected surface attack drone. Russia resumed its participation in a United Nations-Turkey-brokered deal that allows grain to leave...
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Russian Navy Pulls Warships from Black Sea into Port After Attacks
H I Sutton Photo Illustration for USNI News The Russian Navy still outnumbers and outguns the Ukrainians in the northern Black Sea. Despite the dominance on paper, the Russian Navy is on its back foot...
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Pentagon Adds 40 Armored Patrol Boats to Latest Ukraine Military Aid Package
A patrol boat assigned to Coastal Riverine Squadron Two (CRS 2) escorts a ship in 2014. US Navy Photo The United States will send 40 armored riverine boats to Ukraine as part of the latest assistance...
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Ukraine Launches Crowd Funding Drive for $250K Naval Drones
Screenshot from United24 website. Ukraine has put out an international call to crowd-fund a fleet of 100 domestically built sea drones like the ones used in a late October attack on Russian Navy ships...
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Black Sea Grain Deal Extended by Another Four Months
Wheat fields in midsummer in Ukraine, Oblast Lviv in 2012. Raimond Spekking Photo A Turkey-United Nations brokered deal to allow for Ukraine grain exportation was extended by 120 days, the U.N....
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Top Stories 2022: War in Ukraine
Ukrainian Neptune anti-ship missiles. Ukraine MoD Photo This post is part of a series looking back at the top naval stories from 2022. It has been 10 months since Russia invaded Ukraine and the war is...
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U.K. MoD: Russian Anti-Ship Missile Used in Fatal Attack on Civilians in...
AS-4 Kitchen Missile flown by a Tupolev Tu-22M bomber Russian military likely used an anti-ship missile in the attack on Dnipro, which killed 40 people, according to the British Ministry of Defense....
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Russia, Ukraine in Black Sea Stalemate a Year Into Russo-Ukraine Conflict
RTS Moskva (121) following an April 13, 2022 strike from Ukrainian missiles. Russian MoD When Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago, the Black Sea was suddenly in the spotlight. The Black Sea, which...
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UPDATED: U.S. MQ-9 Drone Crashes in Black Sea After Collision with Russian...
MQ-9 Reaper UAV. US Air Force Photo This story has been updated to add comments from Pentagon Press Secretary Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. David Berger, as well as information...
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Pentagon: Russia Unlikely to Recover Anything Helpful From Downed Drone
MQ-9 Reaper UAV. US Air Force Photo It’s unlikely Russia will recover anything useful from a downed U.S. drone, the Pentagon press secretary said Thursday. Russia is likely looking to recover a U.S....
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Russia Continues Odesa Attacks After Grain Deal Collapse, NSC Warns Of...
Attacks on Odesa. Ukrainian MoD Photo Russian bombed the Ukrainian port city Odesa for the second time since Moscow pulled out of a United Nations-Turkey brokered deal that allowed Ukraine to export...
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British Defense Ministry Warns of Potential Naval Blockade in Black Sea
Dmitriy Rogachyov pulled into Sevastopol in 2019. Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation The British Ministry of Defense warned Wednesday that Russia could be planning a naval blockade of...
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Ukrainian Attacks on Black Sea Fleet Puts Russia on Defensive, U.K. MoD Says
Ukrainian strike on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, Crimea, on Sept. 22, 2023. Image via Telegram A string of Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in September have likely...
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Turkey to Block U.K. Minesweepers on Loan to Ukraine from Black Sea
HMS Chiddenfold. US Navy Photo Turkey will not let minesweepers loaned to Ukraine by the United Kingdom into the Black Sea, the Turkish president’s directorate of communications said this week. The...
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Time For U.S., Allies to ‘Double Down’ on Military Aid to Ukraine, Says...
Pallets holding munitions are transported off an aircraft cargo loader into a Boeing 747 at Travis Air Force Base, California, April 26, 2022. US Air Force Photo Ukraine needs more ammunition and...
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