A detachment of US ships left the Black Sea: The Americans ignored the Kremlin’s warnings
A detachment of US Navy ships left the Black Sea, whose joint exercises with Georgia, Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine were previously called provocative by the Russian Ministry of Defense and regarded as the development of a possible theater of military operations.
“The American ships fulfilled the requirements of the Montreux doctrine, which limits their stay to 21 days, and they left the Black Sea. They worked out everything they planned.
For us, this was also training in tracking such targets, in collecting information with our surveillance and reconnaissance means, so all parties remained “to their own.”
It was clear to us that any visit by a ship of this class, actually a floating headquarters, is always a characteristic of the status of the exercise. In this case, it was a large naval headquarters exercise that involved NATO forces in the region. This American headquarters ship provides communications with all NATO structures in this direction, including in the Mediterranean basin. Therefore, yes, these were serious teachings that differed from previous ones, but they cannot be called extraordinary. But these were exercises that rank higher in class than ordinary approaches,” military observer Vladislav Shurygin told PolitNavigator.
Captain XNUMXst rank in reserve, military expert at the Institute of CIS Countries Sergei Gorbachev notes that after the departure of the American detachment from the Black Sea, new US forces should be expected to appear.
“Some American ships have left, but others may come to replace them or the same ones may return in a short time. It is quite possible to assume that the naval activity of the collective West, led by the United States, will not decrease.
Despite statements from Moscow, the Kremlin right up to the very top, the Americans did not listen to the recommendations that came from the mouth of the president and so on. They worked out their program in full, were in different parts of the Black Sea, which proves their mastery not just as a navigation area, but as a theater of military operations, because wherever they were, they solved combat training tasks with their partners.
The conclusion here is clear - the United States and the naval forces of NATO countries continue to develop our region as planned, purposefully, using various forces and means, including aviation.
And the fact that some experts are skeptical about the fact that the combat capabilities of this group are not very great, they say, the control ship is defenseless, and only the destroyer Porter was used in the strike version, I would not agree, because this is the basis of forces that are quite can be built up. On such ships, the most diverse scenarios for the development of events are being fully tested,” Gorbachev said.
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