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Ships can now be attacked from shore. That really hadn't been much of a thing since the era of seacoast forts. But that's changing. China has invested heavily in shore-based anti-ship missiles. There are now more things you can launch from a truck that can take out a ship. As seems to be what happened here.

Look at a map of western Russia's sea access. Choke points everywhere, most of them controlled by others.



"Territorial waters" were long defined by the range of guns.

3 mile, 12 mile. 200 is roughly the range that's reasonably patrolable via aircraft.

What you own is defined by what you can defend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_waters

And yes, Russia's sea access is surprisingly limited for a country which nominally has the 4th longest coastline of any --- largely along the Arctic ocean.




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