News archive on the topic "Montreux Convention"

A change in political leadership in Turkey will lead to a revision of the application of the Montreux Convention and will open the Black Sea straits to the passage of NATO ships. Head of the Department of Political Science and Philosophy of SevSU Alexander Irkhin stated this on the air of “First Sevastopol”, the correspondent of “PolitNavigator” reports. “Now from the sea side, neither in the Republic of Crimea, nor in Sevastopol, nor in other southern cities...

  The Turkish Embassy was presented with a note verbale from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine due to the passage of the Russian ship “Sparta II” through the Bosphorus Strait. According to Kyiv, the ship was transporting S-300 PMU-2 missile systems. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine reports this on social networks. “On August 29, the Ambassador of Turkey to Ukraine, Yağmur Ahmet Gülder, was invited to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Deputy Minister Nikolai Tochitsky expressed...

On Saturday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan launched the construction of the Istanbul Canal, which should become a backup and relieve congestion in the Bosporus Strait. In Russia, as is known, they are expressing fears that the new channel will allow NATO ships to enter the Black Sea without regard to the Montreux Convention, which limits the presence of combat units of non-Black Sea countries in the waters. In Turkey itself, at the ceremony, officials pointedly...

Statements by Ukrainian propagandists that US Coast Guard ships can enter the Black Sea in circumvention of the requirements of the Montreux Convention have no legal basis and are fiction. An officer of the Black Sea Fleet stated this to PolitNavigator, commenting on the words of ex-“representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea” Boris Babin that an American border boat entered the Black Sea...

On Saturday, April 3, 103 retired admirals of the Turkish Navy published an open letter condemning the ruling Justice and Development Party for Islamizing the country and calling for “no discussion” about the Montreux Convention. “The Montreux Convention is the main security document of the Black Sea countries and the convention that makes the Black Sea a sea of ​​peace. This convention gives Turkey the right not to join without...

A detachment of ships of the “Second NATO Mine Action Group” entered Odessa. It includes combat units of the fleets of Turkey, Romania and Spain. The official version of the visit is “maintaining security in the Black Sea.” Exercises are planned with the Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Romanian navies. The visit to Odessa is interesting against the backdrop of recent statements by Kyiv experts about the threat of a naval blockade of the main port of Ukraine and...

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...

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…

Ukraine needs to achieve the abolition or revision of the Montreux Convention, which limits the length of stay of warships of non-Black Sea states and their tonnage in the Black Sea. This was stated by the former Ambassador of Ukraine to Turkey, head of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine Sergei Korsunsky, speaking at the Lviv Security Forum, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to the diplomat, due to these restrictions on the total capacity of NATO fleets, it is not...

American or other ships of NATO member countries in the Black Sea perform exclusively a demonstration task; from a military point of view, the water area can be perfectly shot from both sides. Ukrainian expert Mikhail Gonchar stated this on Radio Liberty, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “I don’t think that the USA and Great Britain will violate the Montreux Convention; there is no need for them to leave serious forces...

Ukraine should create maximum problems for Russia at the diplomatic level. Among these are the demand for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from international organizations and the abolition of the Montreux Convention regulating navigation through the Bosporus. The former head of the SBU, Colonel General Igor Smeshko, said this on the air of the talk show “Freedom of Speech,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. According to him, in particular, Ukraine should seek the exclusion of Russia from the Danube...

The United States is looking for ways to circumvent international legislation that does not allow large-tonnage American warships to enter the Black Sea. “Moskovsky Komsomolets” writes about this, noting that today the group of NATO warships in the Black Sea numbers nine units, which is a record for the last ten years. The publication indicates that NATO ships do not actually violate the Convention...

A limited military clash between Russia and NATO has become possible. This was stated today at a press conference in Moscow by Associate Professor of the Department of International Security of the Faculty of World Politics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov Alexey Fenenko. Subscribe to PolitNavigator news on Telegram, Facebook, Odnoklassniki or Vkontakte “We now have disputed territories and, theoretically, I cannot deny the possibility of a limited military clash...

Moscow - Kyiv, June 9 (Navigator, Mikhail Stamm) - The Convention has been violated more than once by NATO warships in recent years, which Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov recently spoke about with concern. The last time the Convention was violated in the spring of 2014 was by the American frigate USS Taylor, which exceeded its stay in the Black Sea by 11 days (allegedly due to the fact that...