NATO Zeros In on Black Sea Security

Russia and NATO countries are going tit for tat in the Black Sea region.

In 2014, Russia invaded eastern Ukraine and annexed the Crimean Peninsula, on the northern coast of the Black Sea. Over the past three years, Russia has militarized the area, modernizing its Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol, in southwestern Crimea, and reinforcing the Anti Access/Area Denial (A2/AD) capabilities on the peninsula. 

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