News archive on the topic "Vladislav Shurygin"

Kyiv can use the American presence in the Black Sea as a cover and stage another provocation. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin did not rule out such a development of events in a comment to Izvestia, answering a question about the consequences of the entry into the Black Sea by the American destroyer Donald Cook. “Previous visits by American ships were not coordinated with Ukrainian forces. Meanwhile, Kyiv can try on its own, without putting the Pentagon...

Ukraine and NATO countries led by the United States remain the main military threat to Crimea, which became part of Russia in 2014. This is the conclusion reached by the famous military publicist Vladislav Shurygin, whose material the editors of “PolitNavigator” brings to the attention of readers. Writing any scripts in the spirit of Tom Clancy is a thankless task. And not only because the place is already occupied...

The war in Donbass is needed not only by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to maintain power, but also by the United States to force Europe to abandon Russian gas. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin shared this opinion on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The war in the ATO zone, the war in Donbass is needed not only by Poroshenko, it is also needed by the same...

Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin harshly criticized today's speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who called the possible recognition of the LDPR “a manifestation of a nervous breakdown and weakness.” “Summary of Lavrov’s interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda: “If they hit us in the face with the left, we will substitute it with the right.” This is wise and Christian... - Americans can do anything, but we can’t - we...

Statements by Ukrainian politicians about the unprecedented concentration of Russian troops along the border - propaganda aimed exclusively at the inner man in the street - in the West can easily be convinced of the unreliability of the information. Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin stated this on the Rossiya-1 TV channel, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The schizophrenia of the Ukrainian military and nationalists on the topic that Russia is about to attack is already becoming...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted the bill “On the Adjacent Zone”, according to which Ukrainian border boats and ships have the right to open fire on violators without any warnings or proceedings, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “What is the adjacent zone? Ukraine ratified the Convention on the Law of the Sea back in 1999, which defines the term “contiguous zone”. This is a marine area that is located on…

The population of Ukraine has come to terms with the loss of Crimea - Kyiv cannot return the peninsula, because Russia provides a better standard of living there. Russian liberal Boris Nadezhdin stated this on the Rossiya 1 TV channel, citing data from a sociological survey conducted in Ukraine by an American company. “The fact that Crimea is ours was de facto recognized by the people of Ukraine. I already quoted...

I have been paying close attention to the personality of the new Sevastopol governor Dmitry Ovsyannikov since last summer, more precisely, since my vacation, which I spent with my family in the beautiful Balaklava, where I had been countless times before Ovsyannikov. But on this visit, as they say, I personally encountered the products of his vital activity in this post. And it didn’t come across in the best way. On the…

Ukraine achieved its goal by escalating the situation in the Kerch Strait in order to provoke the introduction of a new wave of sanctions against the Russian Federation. Kyiv is also trying to involve other countries in the conflict around the Sea of ​​Azov. Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin told PolitNavigator about this. “All this time, Ukraine is trying at any cost to provoke a forceful situation that would allow it to once again tell...

Reports in the Ukrainian media about Washington’s readiness to transfer mothballed frigates to the Ukrainian Navy, on the one hand, should cause concern in Moscow. However, we should not forget that the commissioning of American warships involves significant financial expenses and may turn out to be an unbearable burden for Kyiv. Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin told PolitNavigator about this. “Transfer of frigates...

Explosions at the arsenals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Chernihiv region showed the degradation of both the Ukrainian state and the army. Military expert Vladislav Shurygin writes about this in Izvestia, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He recalls that the modern military history of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is a continuous chain of emergency situations in warehouses and arsenals, and the situation significantly worsened after the 2014 coup d’etat. It is noted that the data…

Ukrainian warships have every right to pass through the Kerch Strait into the Sea of ​​Azov, as this is provided for in the agreement between Ukraine and Russia. Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin told Politnavigator about this. “Ukraine has the right to use the Kerch Strait according to the treaty, so this is a test of how Russia will act. Russia, of course, will not drown. There is an agreement that we...

Russian military expert Vladislav Shurygin ridiculed today's statement by Ukrainian Security Council Secretary Alexander Turchynov about the transfer of warships and boats to the Sea of ​​Azov to counter the “Russian threat.” According to Shurygin, Ukraine does not have naval combat units that could pose a threat to the Russian side. “There were 10 mosquitoes, they will breed 100 mosquitoes - that’s what you can do about it...

Well-known military expert Vladislav Shurygin ridiculed the proposal of ex-commander of the Ukrainian Navy Sergei Gaiduk to mine the Sea of ​​Azov in order to prevent the landing of the “aggressor” in Mariupol and Berdyansk, as well as to prevent the blocking of these ports by Russian border guards. “To begin with, the question arises: does Ukraine have sea mines in the required quantities? You need to understand that, like all the weapons the country has,...