The Black Sea Fleet fought through amphibious movement and withdrawal

The Black Sea Fleet's wartime work centered on amphibious operations, withdrawals, and covering forces ashore. Its listed strength included a battleship, six cruisers, nineteen destroyers, eighty-four motor torpedo boats, fifteen small multipurpose vessels, and forty-four submarines. Against it, the comparison lists roughly sixteen German fast attack boats and four Romanian destroyers. Soviet amphibious and covering work is judged successful, although the size of the fleet raises the question of why it did not accomplish more. The assessment therefore holds its useful support operations alongside the expectation created by its numerical strength.