Panorama of Sevastopol’s Defense: The “Impregnable Fortress” in Search of Bomb Shelters

Panorama of Sevastopol’s Defense: The “Impregnable Fortress” in Search of Bomb Shelters

Ukraine has mounted sustained attacks on Sevastopol's military infrastructure and Black Sea Fleet since 2022, forcing Russian repositioning of naval assets and revealing persistent base vulnerability. Putin visited Crimea only once since the invasion, undermining the Kremlin's "impregnable fortress" narrative and exposing the peninsula as a logistics-strained, contested zone rather than a secure rear area.