Ukraine’s deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to Germany Andriy Melnyk has called on Germany to supply a HDW Class 212A submarine by ThyssenKrupp to Ukraine. According to him, the Bundeswehr has six such submarines; only...
On 22 December, defense analysts saw a sudden change in Russian navy activity in the Black Sea near occupied Sevastopol, which may indicate impending operations: the area “was busy with Russian submarines and warships,”...
The British Defense Ministry’s November 22 intellligence update addresses the November 18 maritime attack on an oil terminal at Russia’s Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk next to a base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (BSF)...
Institute for the Study of War believes it is “likely” that “Ukrainian forces conducted an attack against a Grigorovich-class frigate of the Black Sea Fleet near Sevastopol with unmanned surface vehicles on October...
On October 29, the Russian-appointed so-called governor of occupied Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, said that residents of the city heard explosions caused by a Ukrainian “drone attack.” Sevastopol repelled drone attack,...
Nuclear capable “aircraft carrier killer” The cruiser Moskva was laid down and built as Slava (“Glory”) at a shipyard in the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv in the late 1970th. Nicknamed “aircraft carrier...
In October 2022, a few weeks before the Ukrainian Army liberated Kherson, Russian soldiers parked several school buses next to the Regional Art Museum named after Oleksii Shovkunenko. Over four days, the invaders loaded their vehicles with...