Russia moved cruise missile-firing warships from the Black Sea into the confines of the Sea of Azov in an effort to protect them against Ukrainian attacks.
While the Russians “have decided they can use the Sea of Azov for positioning their ships and launching attacks, Pletenchuk offered a warning to Russia.
“They seem to forget that the Sea of Azov is also quite close to us,” he added.
Lord Admiral Nelson’s famous dictum “A ship’s a fool to fight a fort” accurately reflects the immutable advantages of strong, resilient, and offensively capable land-based forces against relatively poorly armored and fragile naval forces.
Or as Nelson put it:
https://blog.usni.org/posts/2020/08/11/fighting-the-fort-modern-wisdom-for-an-age-old-problem