An escorted move into the Black Sea looked increasingly plausible in the circumstances discussed in July 2022. Any blockade-breaking task group would need ships from as many NATO allies as could spare one. That multinational composition would signal that Russia was confronting a collective decision rather than an isolated national deployment. Given British availability, a Type 45 destroyer was the likely Royal Navy contribution.
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A multinational task group for a Black Sea food convoy
Breaking a food blockade would require a visibly multinational escort so an attack confronted the alliance collectively rather than one navy alone.