On August 14, a Russian Su-30SM multirole fighter jet crashed in an area southeast of Snake Island. With the downing of this ...

Ukraine's punishing attacks on the Black Sea Fleet and the sudden loss of a key port in Syria have dealt major blows to ...

Partisans of the Atesh movement have conducted reconnaissance on a strategic Russian Black Sea Fleet facility in Novorossiysk ...

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is near-perpetually under fire in Moscow's grinding war against an enemy that has no significant conventional naval assets. The story of Russia's full-scale invasion of ...

Founded in 1783, the Black Sea Fleet has long served as Russia’s principal naval force in the Black Sea and Mediterranean, with its main base in Sevastopol. After the collapse of the Soviet ...

Russia's Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu visits the command centre of the Russian Navy's Black Sea Fleet at an unknown location, in this still image taken from video released March 17, 2024.

The Black Sea Fleet is getting seven of the cruise-missile-armed Karakurt s. Tsyklon [sunk in May] was the first to commission into front-line service.

The Azov has two bottlenecks that could make it a trap for the remains of the Black Sea Fleet. At the southern end is the 2.5 mile wide Kerch Strait. A 12-mile, $3.7 billion road and rail bridge over ...

Russia has lost 20 percent of its Black Sea fleet in the past four months, Britain's defense minister has said, after Ukraine scored a high-profile and dramatic victory in Crimea to round off a ...

Russia's Black Sea Fleet is getting smaller, says UK's defense secretary Grant Shapps. "Over the past 4 months 20% of Russia's Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed," Shapps wrote on X.

The commander of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, Adm. Viktor Sokolov, during a send-off ceremony for reservists drafted during a partial mobilization, in Sevastopol, Crimea, in September.