Black Sea Fleet dispute

Black Sea Fleet dispute
Part of the Dissolution of the Soviet Union
Black Sea
Date	4 January 1992 – 28 May 1997
Location	Crimea, Odesa, Black Sea
Resulted in	Division of Black Sea Fleet between Russia and Ukraine Leasing of Sevastopol naval bases to Russia for 20 years Crimea with Sevastopol acknowledged as part of Ukraine
Parties
Ukraine  Russia
Lead figures
Leonid Kravchuk Leonid Kuchma Pavlo Lazarenko Boris Yeltsin Viktor Chernomyrdin

The Black Sea Fleet dispute took place between Russia and Ukraine following the dissolution of Soviet Union. The dispute revolved around ownership of former Soviet Black Sea Fleet, basing rights in Sevastopol, the home base of the fleet, and sovereignty over Crimea. The dispute began in 1992 and involved a series of negotiations and maritime incidents, before being finally settled in 1997 through the Partition Treaty on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet.