Ukraine Urges NATO to Secure Black Sea and Integrate Defences Against Russia.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has called for NATO to play a bigger role in securing the Black Sea and integrate Ukraine's air and missile defences with those of alliance members. Russia's Black Sea fleet is based in Crimea, and capturing Ukraine's ports has been a major objective of Russia. Moscow has seized the entire coast of the Sea of Azov that opens into the Black Sea, but its advance along the Black Sea coast was halted about 130 km east of Ukraine's main port Odesa.