Gunnery Firing Azov Sea

NAVAREA - Spanish Navy ^ | 11 DEC 2021 | Staff

[AdmSmith]

NAVAREA III 0864/21

AZOV SEA 1.- GUNNERY FIRING 081800UTC DEC21 THRU 081800UTC JAN22 IN AREAS BOUNDED BY:

A.
46-18-00N 035-27-00E
46-11-18N 035-58-12E
45-57-42N 035-17-12E
46-01-06N 035-01-18E
46-04-30N 035-09-18E
B.
46-31-00N 036-20-00E
46-31-00N 036-42-00E
46-17-00N 036-40-00E
46-17-00N 035-54-00E
46-24-00N 035-54-00E
46-24-00N 036-14-00E
C.
47-01-12N 037-41-48E
46-59-12N 037-59-12E
46-59-12N 038-07-18E
46-57-42N 038-07-18E
46-52-12N 037-35-24E

NAVIGATION TEMPORARILY DANGEROUS

2.- CANCEL THIS MESSAGE 081900UTC JAN22

[AdmSmith]

Map

From Dec 21 to Jan 22, i.e. it includes the date of the collaps of the Soviet Union Dec 25, 1991.

[AdmSmith]

collaps =>collapse

[AdmSmith]

Russia has blocked off nearly 70 percent of the Sea of Azov around the illegally annexed Crimean Peninsula, the Ukrainian Navy has announced.
https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-azov-sea-russia-tensions/31604367.html

Putin called the USSR's breakup the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century” In his state-of-the-nation address on 25 April, Russian President Vladimir Putin surprised the West by calling the Soviet Union's collapse the “biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” His declaration, however, has caused little stir at home. Political analysts view the Russian president's comments as simply an attempt to lift his declining popularity rating among the elderly.
https://www.rferl.org/a/1058688.html

[DUMBGRUNT]

How often does an event of this scale occur?
And in this location?

[bravo whiskey]

From Putin’s standpoint it is a disaster. They “lost” the Baltic states except for Kaliningrad, Ukraine, trans Caucasus, and 5 ‘stans. All the ethnic Russians living in those places are no longer Russian citizens. They lost more territory than Russia lost after WW1 and the Russian Civil War.