Victory at Sea: Russia’s Last Warship Retreats From Crimea in Win for Ukraine, With Land War at Impasse
Black Sea begins to return to normal after Ukraine, a nation without warships, wages unconventional warfare to sink or damage one-third of Russia’s fleet.
Russia withdrew its last warship from Crimea this week. It left with a whimper, in contrast to the booms of Russia’s previous defeats in the region: to a Franco-British alliance in the Crimean War in 1855 and to a Nazi-led alliance in World War II in 1942. With no modern rendering of “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” Ukraine pulled off its victory in the Battle of the Black Sea with robot drones and cruise missiles.
“Remember this day,” the Ukrainian Navy spokesman, Dmytro Pletenchuk, posted on Facebook. “The last patrol ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet is leaving our Crimea right now.” In the larger picture of the Russia-Ukraine war, the land war looks like a stalemate. The sea war looks like a Ukrainian victory.
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