Russians were forced off the coastline, will still enable them to maintain that blockade. i think the big issue here is with the threat that the russians have demonstrated that the russians have demonstrated that they appear to have in terms of amphibious landings. in truth, the russian amphibious capability even though it has been reinforced within the black sea, is not incredibly significant. it is not very large scale. russian amphibious tends to use fairly small amphibious landings in concert with an overland ground attack. what we have seen over the last few weeks as the russians mainly w...