The Russians want to play with the Turkish and Caucasian cards. In this situation, they can pretend that they want to make peace in Europe, and the unsettled "separatists" prowl around the Black Sea. It's just that these "separatists" - so far - do not have a fleet, so everything that flies there has Russian flags - and they will not deny it.

Of course, one could say that he would say something about "deescalation", but then the Turks will try to take an auction - who will defend them better. And this is finally a NATO country.
So that sooner or later the Black Sea awaits us. And rather sooner than later. Generally, the idea is to cut them off in the Kerch Strait and neutralize shipbuilding in Novorossiysk.

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Available sea forces:

aircraft carrier Nimitz, missile destroyer Arleigh Burke, cruiser Ticonderoga, OP Virginia.