Rewind and Reconnoiter: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea with Daniel Fiott

In 2022, Daniel Fiott wrote “Relative Dominance: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea” for War on the Rocks, in which he argued that enhanced support to Ukrainian naval forces would be required to break Russia’s relative dominance in the Black Sea.  In response to a series of successful Ukrainian naval operations against Russia’s Black Sea fleet, we asked him to look back on his article. Read more below. Photo Credit: President of the Russian Federation via Wikimedia Commons In your article “Relative Dominance: Russian Naval Power in the Black Sea” written in November 2022, you argued that Russian naval forces maintained critical advantages