UPDATE: Chinese vessels make breakthrough visit to the Black Sea

The Yantai missile frigate in Turkish waters

Two Chinese warships are on a ‘goodwill tour’ in the Black Sea, with port calls in Sevastopol and Constanta 

The destroyer Qingdao and missile frigate Yantai are accounted for, but the whereabouts of the Weishanhu replenishment ship are unknown, with no signs yet that the latter has crossed the Bosphorus. 

My article, published today in Jane’s Defence Weekly, continues here (subscription required).