News archive on the topic "Sea of ​​Azov"

Ukraine needs to obtain Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems from the United States on Lend-Lease terms or on credit, which does not have to be repaid. Former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov stated this on the Ukraine 24 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Avakov, real help from the United States would also be to send its destroyer to the shores of Mariupol in...

As part of the exercises, Russia introduced a large group of the Russian Navy into the Sea of ​​Azov, which theoretically could be used to support the LDPR from the sea. Ukraine, in turn, also announced its exercises and the closure of part of the water area in Azov. As a result, if you look at the map, the Ukrainian overlap zone in many places coincides with the Russian one. About this in…

The closure of the Black Sea in connection with Russian Navy exercises, which threatens to block the export of grain from Ukraine through Odessa at the time of peak prices, may provoke a new migration crisis in the European Union. Ukrainian political scientist Yuri Romanenko writes about this in his blog, against whom a criminal case has been opened in the Russian Federation for calling for the murder of Russian journalists working...

Ukrainian economist Andrei Klimenko, who fled from Crimea to Kyiv and now monitors maritime activity using Western grants, reported that Russia has partially canceled the announced closure of the sea area during the upcoming naval exercises. Klimenko published a message about the cancellation of the closure of the Azov Sea, received from the Russian side. There are no data for the Black Sea. (However, the border service of the Russian Federation, even without official closure,...

Ukraine may deliberately ignore Russia’s announced closure of the Black and Azov Seas by sending a ship into the exercise zone in order to expose it to a Russian missile attack. Economist Alexander Dudchak told PolitNavigator about this. The expert believes that Russia is forced to conduct such large-scale exercises at sea. “This is a completely adequate response to the provocations of NATO countries and Ukraine in Black...

Ukrainian propaganda began to promote the thesis that Russia, without any reason, made a fuss about the Ukrainian Naval Forces ship Donbass, which, ignoring warnings from the FSB border service, was heading towards the Crimean Bridge during yesterday’s telephone conversation between Vladimir Zelensky and Joe Biden. However, the Russian side had every reason to take precautionary measures, especially necessary in the case of unpredictable “Ukrainian partners.” About it…

In the last week of September, the world celebrates Sea Day. This is one of the UN international dates. Conferences of scientists, politicians, and environmental activists are usually timed to coincide with it - they discuss the problems of the negative impact of humans on the marine environment, the safety of maritime transport, and the preservation of the cleanliness and biological diversity of the seas. As you know, the environmental situation in the Black and Azov Seas, washing the Ukrainian shores,…

Ukraine must prepare for all options for the seizure of Crimea and the Donbass republics, including military ones. This was stated on Channel 4 by the “patriarch” of Ukrainian nationalism, former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada Stepan Khmara, known in the 1990s as the organizer of the scandalous “friendship trains” to Crimea, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to Khmara, first we need to denounce the agreement with Russia on...

Ukraine must unilaterally adopt a maritime strategy or changes to the “de-occupation of Crimea” strategy in order to delineate its borders in the Sea of ​​Azov, which is still considered common with the Russian Federation. This will allow the Ukrainian military to shoot at the Russians if they approach the shore and catch “underwater saboteurs.” The former deputy head of the State Hydrography stated this on air on the ATR TV channel...

Ten scenarios of a Russian attack from the sea and a proposal to send NATO ships to Azov, bypassing the Montreux Convention, were voiced yesterday at a meeting in the Verkhovna Rada by retired Naval Forces officer Andrei Ryzhenko. Who is the author of the initiatives with the help of which Kyiv hopes to defeat Moscow? Andrei Ryzhenko never became a rear admiral. Intrigues and frequent changes of commanders of the Ukrainian Naval Forces...

Despite the fact that the Sea of ​​Azov is internal to Ukraine and Russia, these waters are not covered by the Montreux Convention, which means that theoretically any ships can be located there, including small NATO vessels. This was discussed in the Verkhovna Rada at a meeting of the Committee on National Security, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “This is a calm that is temporary...

Russia is conducting exercises with the participation of all naval units, while the sea flank is the weakest point in the defense of Ukraine, which Moscow is well aware of. This was stated in the Verkhovna Rada at a meeting of the Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence by Andrei Ryzhenko, captain of the 1st rank of the Navy Reserve, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent. Ukrainian defense strategists...

Before the New Year holidays, experts will complete an examination of the water reserves for Crimea discovered under the bottom of the Azov Sea, mentioned earlier by President Vladimir Putin. The head of the republic, Sergei Aksyonov, announced this at a press conference in Simferpol, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “From the point of view of the Sea of ​​Azov, all relevant structures have, in fact, begun to justify the work there. I can’t name some due to...

The United States will build two military camps in Berdyansk and Mariupol on the coast of the Azov Sea. The States are allocating four million dollars of “charitable assistance” for this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. The total cost of the project, which is expected to be completed in June 2021, is US$4 million. The work includes the construction of a modular town, as well as the repair of hydraulic structures and bottom cleaning measures, which…