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by zero_deg_kevin 1824 days ago
In line of sight to whose military base? This ship was operating in Ukrainian waters off Ukrainian territory.
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Sevastopol Naval Base is Russian since 1783 if I understand correctly.
Crimea occupied by Russian Federation. Sevastopol naval base due date is 28 May 2017.
In Ukraine.
I don't want to play tit-for-tat but it's "in Ukraine" just like Guantanamo Bay is "in Cuba". So it's complicated and not explained with a naive "I just wanted to sail my warship through, gee why do u bully ME?"
To be fair, Guantanamo is indeed on the island of Cuba.
Crimea de facto belongs to Russia now and that isn't going to change to no matter how many warships cruise past it.

Realistically it's difficult to imagine any scenario where Crimea ends up belonging to Ukraine again.

Now that Biden has waived the sanctions against the Nordstream 2 project, Ukraine will lose it's strategic importance as a gas transit country. At the same time Russia's importance as an energy supplier to Europe will increase. It won't be much longer before no one cares about Ukraine or Crimea anymore.

No. Crimea does not belong to Russia. That’s nonsense.
Yes, Crimea does indeed de facto belong to Russia, although de jure it is recognised by most countries as belonging to Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure

I’ll leave the semantic arguments to the Latin majors. Russia may see some legitimacy to its claim to Crimean territory, but it’s a self-asserted claim and it should be treated with as much respect as any other self-asserted claim.

Again, I assert that I am mayor of Moscow.