The colossal steel plants along Ukraine’s side of the sea are unrestorable ruins since the invasion, and Russia’s gains equate to ‘almost zero’, analysts say.

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Kyiv, Ukraine – The first things Mariya Bubnova recalls about the Sea of Azov are the small sailboats she and her friends rented to cruise its warm and barely salty waters.

“It was our tradition – to get together once a year,” the dark-haired businesswoman, displaced person and mother of two tells Al Jazeera.