How Ukraine fights in the Black Sea without a navy

Ukraine had almost no navy when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. Four years later, Russia’s Black Sea Fleet rarely leaves port. DW explains how missiles, sea drones and new tactics changed naval warfare.

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At the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Ukraine barely had a navy capable of challenging Russia‘s powerful Black Sea fleet. Four years later, Russian warships rarely leave port. 

Ukraine did it with missiles, drones and tactics born out of necessity, turning the Black Sea into a testing ground for a radically different kind of naval warfare.

DW went aboard Ukrainian vessels and met the teams developing its latest sea drones to see how Ukraine fights at sea without a fleet — and why militaries from the Baltics to Taiwan are studying what happened here.

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