It Looks Like Russia Wants To All But Wall Off Ukraine's Coastlines
Next Week
"The Russian government has reportedly issued notices warning mariners and aviators to
avoid significant portions of the northern end of the Black Sea, as well as the adjacent Sea
of Azov, next week ostensibly due to upcoming live-fire naval exercises. The obvious
concern is that this could amount to a de facto blockade of Ukraine's southern coastlines,
which in turn might be part of preparations for new large-scale Russian military
intervention into that country.
Earlier today, Andrii Klymenko, a member of the Ukraine-based Institute of Strategic Black
Sea Studies think tank and editor-in-chief of the independent BlackSeaNews website,
posted a map on social media showing areas of the Black Sea and Sea of Azov covered
by these notices. He said that the alerts will be in effect starting this coming Sunday,
February 13, through the following Saturday, February 19."
See:
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zon...ines-next-week