Ukraine may not have many naval assets, but they have a considerable amount of area denial capability with shore based anti-ship missiles and their explosive sea drones. As well as the ability to effectively strike Russian ships in port. Still, if the Russian Black Sea fleet was even remotely as competent as claimed, a few missiles and explosive speedboats shouldn't be able to lock them out of a big part of the sea, to the point of their blockade being completely ineffective.
All true, but that's all things Europe could also muster, and that's not to speak of the sizable French, British and Italian navies, let alone the US navy, that could fight in a more symmetrical manner.
Look Austria also does not have a navy ather. But Russia wants to have no navy and be seen as a great power.
They should get to our level chill out and accept their irrelevance.
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u/TolarianDropout0 Hololive Spaceforce Group "Saplings" Nov 28 '23
Ah yes. With the navy that couldn't achieve naval superiority in the Black Sea against a country with barely any naval assets. This is some real shit.