Russia Ukraine war, page-19641

then you are pretty ignorant. There are many battle at sea that don’t involve any navies seeing each other. The battle of midway, coral sea and phillipine sea for example. There are also the naval battle of Malaya where the prince of wales and repulse was sunk without facing a single Japanese ship. They weee sunk by aircraft and it is listed as a naval battle at sea

you can definitely have a naval battle where ships are sunk by missiles/ planes.

hope you have better understanding now.