But the United States and Western allies have long provided intelligence to Ukraine that, along with its own extensive intelligence-gathering networks, Kyiv uses to select targets. The United States has prohibited the use of American weapons in any attack against Russian territory, and American officials say they do not pick targets for Ukraine. Those concerns have lessened, though not disappeared. In Washington, Biden administration officials had expressed reservations early in the war about Ukraine striking targets or conducting sabotage inside Russia, including its Black Sea ports, fearing that such attacks would only escalate tensions with President Vladimir V. And it will also almost certainly raise new challenges for NATO as it seeks to uphold a central tenet of international law - free navigation of the sea - without drawing the alliance directly into conflict with Russian forces. The battle for control of the sea could have implications for global energy markets and world food supplies. Oleksiy Neizhpapa, said in May as he made the case for a more robust response to what he called Russia’s tyranny on the international waters of the Black Sea. “We must defend our own coast starting from the coast of the enemy,” the commander of the Ukrainian navy, Rear Adm.
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