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The Black Sea: A new zone of conflict

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Ole Alsaker
August 16, 2023

Russia is choking off the flow of grain from Ukraine by bombing port infrastructure and threatening to treat ships approaching Ukrainian ports as potential military vessels. Ukraine has ramped up attacks on Russian ships, opening a new theater of war on the water.

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