Russian Black Sea Fleet

Force in Play

Severely degraded, relocated from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk

Ukraine struck two large Russian Navy landing ships — the Yamal and the Nikolai Filchenkov — docked in Sevastopol Bay on April 20, disabling an estimated $150 million in naval assets and destroying a Podlet-K1 radar station. The same night, drones hit the Tuapse oil refinery in Krasnodar for the second time in a week, igniting tank farm fires at one of Russia's ten largest refineries. These were the latest in a sustained campaign that has forced Russia's Black Sea Fleet to abandon its historic base in Crimea and retreat to Novorossiysk — where it is still being hit.

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