The Black Sea’s Strategic Importance of the and NATO’s Role in Countering the Kremlin’s Military Domination
Journal: Romanian Military Thinking
Year: 2022

"The Black Sea region has become one of the key geopolitical spaces for the competition between Russia and the West on which the very future of Europe ultimately depends. The Kremlin wants to keep the Black Sea in its sphere of influence through a strategy of regional destabilisation based on a special military operation against Ukraine, the illegal annexation of new territories, historically considered to belong to Russia, and the strengthening of the military presence in these territories or t