You are viewing a single comment's thread from:RE: Vladimir Putin's twisted perception of UkraineView the full contextView the direct parentborepstein (74)in Deep Dives • 3 years ago They have a Pacific coast. To bypass Turkey hey'd need to go way further than Ukraine.
The Pacific coast is thousands of miles from their developed areas. There is no way to bypass Turkey out of the Black Sea. Russia just doesn't have any good warm water ports outside the Baltic, and they can't use the Baltic anymore either.