In April 2022, a country with almost no navy sank the flagship of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet. Four years later, that fleet rarely leaves port, cargo ships are sinking off NATO coasts, and the grain that feeds part of the world crosses water where ships now sink. Why is a closed sea with one narrow exit now the most dangerous stretch of water in Europe?
CHAPTERS
00:00 The sinking of the Moskva
00:31 A sea with one way out
01:45 Why Russia wants this sea
02:38 A fleet pushed into a corner
03:48 The grain that feeds the world
04:43 2026: the war on merchant ships
05:54 Energy, mines and NATO on the shore
06:41 What comes next
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