Russia plans to open a new Black Sea naval base near Crimea in four years’ time, a retired Black Sea Fleet commander has told state news agency RIA Novosti.
Moscow retained military facilities in Crimea after Ukraine declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1992 and has been rearming the peninsula since annexing it in 2014.
The Black Sea Fleet has been based for years at the Sevastopol port on the peninsula; however, Russia commissioned a new base in the nearby Krasnodar region, prior to the Crimea annexation.
The new base will be finished soon, according to the fleet’s former commander Igor …read more
Source: Newsweek
