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Latest news Ukraine

Russia: We will counter any UK-Ukraine cooperation in Sea of Azov

Britain's new 100-year partnership with Ukraine has drawn sharp rebuke from Moscow, with Russia asserting exclusive control over the Sea of Azov despite its internationally recognized status as shared waters.

byBenjamin Looijen

Latest news Ukraine

Russia starts launching cruise missiles from the Azov Sea, looking for a new tactic

Last night, on 25 August 2023, Russia launched cruise missiles from the Sea of Azov to the Ukrainian…

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Latest news Ukraine

Tankers stopped entering Russian Novorossiysk to export oil after an alleged drone attack on the terminal

Ukraine’s head of the Black Sea Monitoring group Andrii Klymenko notes that not a single tanker entered the Russian oil…

byEuromaidan Press Staff

Ships of the Russian Navy's Caspian flotilla on parade in Astrakhan in 2012 (Source: Wikipedia)

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Analysis

China may help Russia’s navy in Azov, Black and Caspian seas by deepening and widening Volga-Don Canal

Last week, officials of China’s CCCC Dredging Group met in Astrakhan with representatives of the Russian enterprise responsible…

byPaul A. Goble

ukraine news daily review 11 feb 2022

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Daily review

Daily review: US sends more Javelins; US, UK, others urge their citizens to leave Ukraine, resultless Normandy talks

Past 24 hours in the war zone Russian hybrid forces launched eight attacks on Ukrainian positions in Donetsk,…

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Russian Aggression

Russia cancels scheduled Azov Sea blockade, Black Sea still to be blocked

Earlier, on 9 February, Russia issued warnings about its closure of the Black and Azov Seas “for missile…

Russian blockade Black Sea

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Russian Aggression

How Ukraine can prevent an imminent Russian blockade of the Black & Azov Seas

Ukraine condemned Russia’s planned blockade of parts of the Black and Azov seas under the pretext of military…

byEuromaidan Press Contributor

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Crimea

Russia’s claims to Ukrainian warship “Donbas” in Kerch Strait pure psy-op, maritime expert says

On the evening of 9 December, the Russian FSB announced that the ship of the Ukrainian Navy “Donbas”…

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Russia closing off more of Black Sea even as it pulls its land forces back from Ukrainian border

Russia may be extending its control over the Black Sea at the very moment Moscow is being praised…

byPaul A. Goble

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Russian Aggression

Russia effectively seizes control of Sea of Azov, threatening Ukraine

Moscow’s justification for what it has done is that it is planning naval exercises in the region and…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russian military blocking the Kerch Straight using a tanker to not let Ukrainian Navy vessels into the Sea of Azov, November 25, 2018 (Photo: video capture)

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Russia violating international law by closing Kerch Straits to naval vessels until October, Kyiv says

The international community has focused on Russia’s buildup of forces on territory adjoining Ukraine, concerned that such a…

byPaul A. Goble

Ships of the Russian Navy's Caspian flotilla on parade in Astrakhan in 2012 (Source: Wikipedia)

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Russian Aggression

Moscow moving 15 warships from Caspian Sea to waters off Ukraine

Moscow is playing up this move as well as the concurrent transfer of armored units from the eastern…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

Russia's Su-25 fighter jets cruising over the Kerch bridge while a Russian oil-tank ship blocked passage for three Ukrainian boats. Kerch Strait, 25 November 2018. Photo: kerch.fm

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Russia’s strategy in the Sea of Azov: The Kerch Bridge, artificial shipping delays and continued harm to Ukraine

Russia’s “hard power” activity in the Sea of Azov has increased significantly since May 2018, when the authorities…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

A Ukrainian naval cutter at pier in Berdyansk, Ukraine (Photo: president.gov.ua)

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Kremlin lashes out at Ukraine’s construction with Western help of new bases on Black Sea

Vladimir Putin‘s press secretary Dmitry Peskov says that Kyiv’s construction of new bases on the Black Sea, bases…

byPaul A. Goble

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Ukraine

Kyiv considers purchase of 16 US patrol boats Mark VI which might strengthen Ukraine’s maritime security

It should be noted that the March–June 2020 reduction in such artificial delays should not be taken as…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

A Ukrainian naval cutter at pier in Berdyansk, Ukraine (Photo: president.gov.ua)

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New Ukrainian naval base ‘East’: A countermeasure against Russia’s hybrid strategies in the Sea of Azov?

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made an official visit to the southeastern coastal oblast of Zaporizhzhia, on April 11.…

byThe Jamestown Foundation

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International

How recent PACE resolution invoking Geneva convention will help free Ukrainian sailors captured by Russia

Since Russia’s attack on Ukrainian ships and capture of 24 sailors on 25 November 2018, Ukraine has been…

Year in review: 1001 pro-Kremlin disinformation messages, Ukraine as top target

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Hybrid War

1001 pro-Kremlin disinformation messages: Ukraine remains top target

Out of over 1000 cases that EU vs Disinfo has collected in 2018, Ukraine emerges again as a primary (and constant) target.…

byEU East StratCom Task Force

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Political prisoners

Learn Russian with Euromaidan Press: send holiday greetings to the Kremlin’s Ukrainian hostages

This is the fourth year we’re inviting you to join the holiday letter-writing campaign to the Ukrainian hostages…

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International

The Resolution of United Nations on the Azov Sea and the diplomatic defeat of Russia

On 17 December, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the resolution A/73/L.47 condemning not only the single fact…