Moscow has been forced to remove the bulk of its Black Sea Fleet from its primary bases on the occupied Crimean Peninsula and look for alternative ports.
New satellite images show fresh development at Russia's newest Black Sea port—Ochamchire in the Kremlin-controlled Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia—as Moscow seeks new hubs from which to project power into a sea that has become a key theater of its war on Ukraine.
As of 2022, the Rondeli Foundation said the port could accommodate up to 10 such Sobol- and Mongoose-class ships.'This port is for the coastguard,' Pavel Luzin, a Russian military analyst and visiting scholar at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, told Newsweek.Ochamchire cannot serve as an alternative to major ports in Crimea or elsewhere, Luzin said.'This base is small enough and cannot be compared with Sevastopol and Novorossiysk,' he explained.
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