The Russian Navy’s future is “tenuous and unclear” as it evolves from a global aspiration into a smaller, regional force.

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

Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) has reported that a naval drone has killed five elite Russian divers in the bay of ...

During a reconnaissance operation in the Black Sea, one of the naval attack drones broke into the Novorossiysk Bay, where the ...

Over the dark waters of the Kerch Strait, a swarm of Russian Mi-8 gunship helicopters swoops down through the winter night ...

A Russian navy tugboat, the Kapitan Ushakov, sank on August 9, 2025, at a shipyard in St. Petersburg. It was expected to be ...

By Steven Wills, Defense Opinion Writer. It’s been a bad recent stretch for the Russian and Chinese navies. The Russian northern fleet’s new ocean-going tug Kapitan Ushakov began sinking on Aug. 8 and ...

At the time of manipulation with the Ukrainian drone, a detonation occurred, as a result of which all five Russian submarine ...

Russia is training to sink fake ships with explosive-packed naval drones. It's an innovative tactic that Ukraine has used to batter Russia's Black Sea Fleet. However, since Ukraine lacks a proper ...

Ukraine’s Black Sea operations against Russia are shaping U.S. Navy and NATO thinking on the future of drones, mines and missile tactics in global maritime warfare.

MOSCOW, August 7. /TASS/. Russia’s Black Sea Fleet destroyed a Ukrainian seaborne drone in the Black Sea, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Thursday. "At about 2:50 p.m. Moscow time [11: ...