{"id":4419,"date":"2018-11-08T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/?p=4419"},"modified":"2018-11-08T23:37:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T23:37:00","slug":"russia-shows-its-military-might-in-the-black-sea-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/2018\/11\/08\/russia-shows-its-military-might-in-the-black-sea-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"RUSSIA SHOWS ITS MILITARY MIGHT IN THE BLACK SEA AND BEYOND"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Source: Atlantic Council<\/p>\n

By Ruslan Minich<\/p>\n

Since illegally annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia has drastically increased its military presence in the Black Sea region. The Kremlin\u2019s dominance may be temporary given NATO\u2019s greater capacities, but so far, NATO\u2019s response has been limited.<\/p>\n

\u201cRussia has practically covered all of the Black Sea region,\u201d says Hryhorii Perepelytsia, the head of the Kyiv-based Foreign Policy Research Institute. \u201cIt can destroy targets\u2014for instance, NATO ships\u2014right at the entrance via the straits of Bosporus and Dardanelles.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kremlin has consistently upgraded its military capabilities over the past five years. It increased its military personnel from 12,500 before illegally seizing Crimea to 32,000 in 2018, aiming to reach 43,000 by 2025, and it updated and extended its military bases. Additionally, Russia has been creating an anti-access\/area denial (A2\/AD) zone over the Black Sea that will allow the Kremlin to deny other countries\u2019 access and free movement in the region.<\/p>\n

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Source: Atlantic Council By Ruslan Minich Since illegally annexing Crimea in 2014, Russia has drastically increased its military presence in the Black Sea region. The Kremlin\u2019s dominance may be temporary given NATO\u2019s greater capacities, but so far, NATO\u2019s response has been limited. \u201cRussia has practically covered all of the Black Sea region,\u201d says Hryhorii Perepelytsia,… Continue reading RUSSIA SHOWS ITS MILITARY MIGHT IN THE BLACK SEA AND BEYOND<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-and-strategy","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4419\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/dcss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}