page_title: List of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine
section_title: 2018
hierarchical_section_title: List of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine / 2018
caption_attribution_description: English: Captured BK-02 Berdyansk with a huge hole in the pilothouse
context_page_description: The following is a list of Black Sea incidents involving Russia and Ukraine since the Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, part of the Ukrainian crisis.
context_section_description: On 21 September 2018, the Russian Su-27 fighter, from the temporarily occupied territory of the Crimea, created the preconditions for an emergency in the air, approaching to a dangerous distance an An-26 military transport aircraft of the Ukrainian Naval Forces, which was executing a scheduled task above the Black Sea.
  On 25 September 2018 during the Volia-2018 Ukrainian strategic command and staff exercises, Russian Su-27 fighter jet's dangerous flyby over Ukrainian warships.
  On 25 November 2018 three Ukrainian navy vessels which attempted to redeploy from the Black Sea port Odessa to the Sea of Azov port Berdyansk were damaged and captured by the Russian FSB security service during the Kerch Strait incident.
caption: Captured BK-02 Berdyansk with a hole in the pilothouse
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