The Kerch Strait incident in November 2018 indicates that the geographic focal point of the Russian-Ukrainian military conflict may be currently shifting from the Donets Basin to the Black and Azov Seas. Four factors in particular make further tensions between Moscow and Kyiv, along the shores of the Crimean peninsula and Ukraine’s southeastern mainland coastline probable.
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Andreas Umland: Ukraine’s Black Sea coast, the next geopolitical flashpoint?
A man looks out at the Black Sea from the coastal city of Sochi, on Dec. 26, 2016, a day after a military plane crashed out at sea.
