English: The Sea of Azov and southern Ukraine in early winter. Caption: On December 10, 2002, winter seemed to have already arrived in southern Ukraine (left) and Russia (right). The landscape is a dull brown, and dotted with small frozen lakes. The Don River flowing into the Sea of Azov from upper right is beginning to freeze in sections, and the Sea itself is developing a covering of ice. The Sea as a gray-green cast, while the Black Sea to the south appears dark, clear blue.