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The Black Sea Fleet has its official primary headquarters and facilities at the Sevastopol Naval Base, Crimea, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014. The rest of the fleet's facilities are based in locations on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, including Krasnodar Krai , Rostov Oblast and Crimea.
The ownership over Black Sea Fleet as well as its home base in Sevastopol became a subject of dispute between sovereign Russia and Ukraine. In 1997, the Russian Federation and Ukraine signed the Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet which ended the dispute.
At noon on 22 September 2023, two or more Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles, supplied by France and/or the UK, [1] [10] [11] [12] struck the headquarters of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet. The event was filmed [ 13 ] and widely shared on social media, and confirmed by Russian installed governor Mikhail Razvozhayev .
The weird behavior follows devastating Ukrainian attacks on the Black Sea Fleet. Satellite imagery of a key Russian naval base along the Black Sea has revealed strange behavior, specifically ...
Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been forced to move many warships from the naval base of Sevastopol on the Crimean peninsular, which Russia annexed in 2014, due to attacks by Ukraine, a Russian ...
Russia accused Ukraine early Friday of attacking its Black Sea navy base in the port of Novorossiysk with sea drones. The attack on Novorossiysk is the first time a commercial Russian port has ...
Russian Black Sea Fleet units went on combat alert. [65] Ukrainian navy put Odessa base and Black Sea Fleet river patrol unit under its own control. [66] These incidents alarmed both sides and on 12 April 1994, the negotiations resumed, with Russia being given nominal 80-85% share in exchange for undisclosed compensation for Ukraine.
The Russian warship Moskva, the flagship of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet, was attacked and sunk by Ukrainian forces on 14 April 2022 during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Ukrainian officials announced that their forces had hit and damaged it with two R-360 Neptune anti-ship missiles , and that the ship had then caught fire.