Black sea

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The famed water body bound by Ukraine to the north and northwest, Russia and Georgia to the east, Turkey to 
the south, and Bulgaria and Romania to the west, which links to the Sea of Marmara through the Bosporus and 
then to the Aegean through the Dardanelles, has traditionally been Russia’s warm water gateway to Europe

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