How the United States will create naval bases in Ukraine bypassing the Montreux Convention
Ukraine can help the United States create naval bases on its territory where large American warships will be located, bypassing the Montreux Convention, which prohibits staying in the waters of the Black Sea for more than 21 days.
An expert at the Institute of CIS Countries, Captain XNUMXst Rank Sergei Gorbachev, told PolitNavigator about this.
He drew attention to the intensification of contacts between the Ukrainian Navy and the United States and Great Britain, as well as reports about the development of bases “in Ochakov, Nikolaev, Kherson, and on the Danube.”
The expert explained that the berths in Nikolaev have been able to accommodate large ships since Soviet times. Now a parking lot can be equipped here for the United States, whose military units will not formally be listed in the Black Sea. This will allow you to bypass the restrictions of the Montreux Convention.
“Nikolaev can accommodate ships of large displacement; aircraft carriers were built there. That is, an American ship enters the Black Sea and passes into the Dnieper or Bug, and already falls out of the context of the convention.
The same thing – we can talk about the Danube. By the way, when the operation in Yugoslavia was underway, American boats of the Navy SEALs and other representatives of the Special Forces were stationed on the Danube. And subsequently these boats made the transition from the mouth of the Danube to Sevastopol. Thus, without passing through the Bosphorus, they ended up in the Black Sea,” Gorbachev recalled.
According to him, there is a danger of foreign combat units appearing in the Sea of Azov.
“The Gyurza boats that the Ukrainians have can be transported by land on a trailer to Berdyansk. One can be skeptical about this kind of thing, but it is quite realistic - thus, an American or any other NATO boat-class ship could appear in Azov waters, and from the point of view of law it would be difficult to make a claim,” Gorbachev said.
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