Using archive and recent images, Sky News has found Russia has tried to camouflage at least five of its Black Sea Fleet vessels with paint - including its flagship. But the Kremlin hasn t stopped at ships, it s also using decoy techniques at airbases by painting fake planes on tarmac.
According to satellite imagery from Oct. 1 and Oct. 3, the Russian military has moved at least 10 vessels, including the frigates Admiral Makarov and Admiral Essen, from Sevastopol to Novorossiysk.
Russian warships evacuated Sevastopol on Russia s southern coast, in what British Defence Minister James Heappey called the functional defeat of the Black Sea Fleet
Russia's Black Sea Fleet was once considered mighty but with a growing threat from Ukrainian attacks, Moscow has turned to a First World War strategy to protect it.