RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: For years, the Sea of Azov was one of Moscow’s greatest strategic gains, as Russia turned geography into a weapon. Again. Yet the very infrastructure that enabled its dominance is increasingly becoming a vulnerability and a target. 📰 The occupation of Crimea and the Kerch Bridge allowed Russia to transform a shared sea into an instrument of military, economic and political domination: 🔹 The illegal chokehold: The construction of the Kerch Bridge deliberately restricted larger commercial vessels, crippling the competitiveness of key Ukrainian ports like Mariupol and Berdiansk years before

For years, the Sea of Azov was one of Moscow’s greatest strategic gains, as Russia turned geography into a weapon. Again. Yet the very infrastructure that enabled its dominance is increasingly becoming a vulnerability and a target.

📰 ukraineworld.org/en/articles…

The occupation of Crimea and the Kerch Bridge allowed Russia to transform a shared sea into an instrument of military, economic and political domination:

🔹 The illegal chokehold: The construction of the Kerch Bridge deliberately restricted larger commercial vessels, crippling the competitiveness of key Ukrainian ports like Mariupol and Berdiansk years before the full-scale war.

🔹 A major legal blow to Moscow: On June 15, 2026, the UNCLOS Arbitral Tribunal officially rejected Russia’s claim that the Azov Sea is its exclusive “historic bay”, ruling the Kerch Bridge illegal and reaffirming Ukraine’s sovereign coastal rights.

🔹Severe ecological ecocide: As one of the world’s shallowest seas, the Azov ecosystem is facing catastrophic, undocumented damage from heavy naval warfare, toxic industrial leaks in Mariupol and side effects of the Kakhovka Dam destruction.

Today, Ukraine is targeting the infrastructure and supply lines that made Russia’s maritime dominance possible, demonstrating that control established by force is neither permanent nor uncontested.

— @ukraine_world Jul 14, 2026