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Why Russia faces a growing threat to its navy off Ukraine

By Brent D. Sadler

Published March 30, 2022 7:26pm ET

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Why Russia faces a growing threat to its navy off Ukraine — A pro-Russian activist waves the Russian state, upper, and Russian Navy flags outside an entrance to the General Staff Headquarters of the Ukrainian Navy in Sevastopol, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2014. Pro-Russian soldiers seem to further cement their control over the strategic region -- that also houses the Russian Black Sea Fleet -- by seizing a ferry terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kerch about 20 kilometers (12 miles) by boat to Russia, intensifying fears that Moscow will send even more troops into the peninsula. It comes as the U.S. and European governments are trying to figure out ways to halt and reverse the Russian incursion. (AP Photo/Andrew Lubimov) | Andrew Lubimov

Russia hadn’t lost a warship to an attack since World War II. Until last week.

On Thursday, the Ukrainian navy announced it destroyed a Russian amphibious warship, the Saratov, that was conducting resupply missions in the Ukrainian port of Berdyansk. While the details are fuzzy, it’s yet more proof that Russia’s war in Ukraine isn’t going well.

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