Admiral Ihor Voronchenko, commander of Ukraine’s Navy and coastal defenses, came to Washington two weeks ago to round up support for Ukraine’s naval hardware needs and to explain Ukraine’s side of the Kerch crisis. The Kerch crisis has placed Ukraine in a difficult quandary: it does not have the naval forces to directly challenge Russia’s control of the Kerch Strait, and it will take decades for Ukraine to bolster its naval capabilities, according to the strategy that Admiral Voronchenko laid out in a recent document titled “Strategy for Naval Military Forces and the Armed Forces of Ukraine – 2035.”