The Russian Black Sea Fleet has exhausted its resources for protection against Ukrainian drones — Navy

The Russians have exhausted almost all technical and tactical measures to defend bases in the Black Sea.

The Russian Black Sea Fleet has reached the “limit” in its attempts to counter Ukrainian naval drones. This was stated by the spokesman for the Naval Forces, Dmitry Pletenchuk, according to Ukrinform.

In the bases — in particular, in Novorossiysk — the enemy has already used almost the entire range of available defensive measures: boom barriers, electronic warfare systems, permanent air patrols, observation posts, and rotation of ship parking lots.

Despite this, Pletenchuk emphasized that unmanned boats regularly “break deep into enemy bases” and reach critical facilities.

“A drone that entered the bay is already a fox in a chicken coop,” the Navy representative described the situation.

He also noted that the enemy has almost no new, fundamentally different from current, defensive tools. According to Pletenchuk, the Russians still have theoretical options for action — for example, sinking their own ships or withdrawing them from the waters of the Azov-Black Sea region — but these steps are unlikely to be implemented due to political motives and admission of defeat. As a result, today the Russian naval group in the Black Sea is actually unable to perform “any serious combat missions,” which reduces its operational effectiveness and increases the vulnerability of the enemy’s naval logistics and bases.

USM previously reported that the Russians only have an auxiliary fleet in Crimea.