After three years of war, Russia’s naval capabilities in the Black Sea have been significantly restricted due to highly effective Ukrainian operations. However, its ships still have the ability to ...

The Black Sea has become the Navy’s laboratory for rehearsing and operationalizing the best ways to tie unmanned, robotic ...

Ukrainian troops have significantly weakened Russia’s maritime strength in the Black Sea. Despite being outnumbered, Ukrainian forces used unconventional methods to damage or destroy at least 24 ...

Within the framework of contacts on the settlement of the Ukrainian conflict, a potential "agreement on the Black Sea" and, ...

The unfortunate breakdown in "deal" prospects between Ukraine and the United States may open avenues for environmental peacebuilding in the current conflict with Russia.

After three years of fighting, the Russian Navy’s capabilities, particularly in the Black Sea, have been seriously degraded and constrained as a result of Ukrainian military and intelligence ...

To the west, preparations are underway for another Chinese company, China Communications Construction Company, to develop Georgia’s first deep-sea port on the Black Sea as part of Beijing’s ...

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Remote-controlled cameras offer a first-time glimpse of numerous wrecks entombed in the icy depths off the coast of Bulgaria. This story appear in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic ...

The Kremlin ruler received state guests in Sochi for years. But he has been avoiding the city on the Black Sea for several months now. Is he afraid of Ukrainian drone attacks? Satellite images ...

In this week's Conflict in Focus episode, Dr. Stacie Pettyjohn, senior fellow and director of the Defense Program at the Center for a New American Security, discusses the key takeaways from the Battle ...