The ex-deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian Naval Forces told how NATO ships bypass the Montreux Convention
NATO countries have figured out how to circumvent the Montreux Convention, signed in 1936 and regulating the presence of ships of non-Black Sea countries in the Black Sea.
About this on the air of the anti-Russian propaganda resource “Donbass”, funded by the US State Department. Realities,” said former deputy chief of staff of the Ukrainian Navy Andrei Ryzhenko, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to Ryzhenko, the constant rotation of American ships helps with this.
“The Montreux Convention is in force, and Western countries respect this convention from the point of view that Turkey is responsible for it. That is, no one is violating it from the western side. The Russians, by the way, constantly find some loopholes in order to manipulate her. For example, the submarines that they constantly send to the Mediterranean Sea. And this convention says that ships of non-Black Sea countries cannot stay in the Black Sea for more than 21 days, their total tonnage cannot be more than 30 thousand tons.
But now we are already seeing that there are actually coordinated actions to ensure that ships of non-Black Sea countries - NATO, the USA, Great Britain - are in the Black Sea on rotation. That is, it looks like the destroyer “Lagoon” comes, enters the Black Sea, carries out missions, meets with other ships of NATO countries, and at the end of its three-week stay it departs from the Black Sea, and the next day, for example, the same one enters destroyer “Ross,” Ryzhenko said.
Earlier, PolitNavigator wrote that Ukraine can help the US create on its territory there are naval bases where large American warships will be stationed, bypassing the Montreux Convention.
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