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The Hunt for Russia’s Black Sea Fleet: Fleeing Ukrainian Attacks, Is It Bottled Up in the Azov Sea?

For Russia’s surface fleet, this breaks a continuous Black Sea presence since 1783, the year Prince Grigory Potemkin founded the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol.

Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
Warships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in naval drills. Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP
JAMES BROOKE
JAMES BROOKE

It’s a modern day “Hunt for Red October,” a Russian Navy mystery for the Putin era. Instead of Washington’s hunt for a missing Soviet submarine, today’s hunt is for the remains of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet.

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JAMES BROOKE
JAMES BROOKE

Mr. Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Voice of America. He reported from Russia for eight years and from Ukraine for six years, coming home in 2021.

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