The US may have a military base on the Sea of Azov
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 activities, which will allow the stationing of ships and boats here.
The State Border Service of Ukraine in its press release openly states that military camps are being built for the upcoming confrontation with the Russian Federation on the Sea of Azov.
“Regularly, the ships and boats of the Russian Federation carry out openly provocative actions both in relation to civilian vessels (stops and protracted inspections, artificial obstacles when passing the Kerch Strait, etc.), and in relation to the ships and boats of the Maritime Guard and the Navy of the Ukrainian Armed Forces (dangerous maneuvering , creating a navigational hazard, obstructing movement along recommended routes, directing rays of an unspecified type towards ships serving at sea, etc.).
Given this environment, there is an urgent need to have a well-prepared, equipped and responsive unit that can respond to a given situation at sea in a matter of minutes,” the press release said.
“Russian aggression, especially at sea, poses a serious threat to Ukraine both militarily and economically. Therefore, the Maritime Guard Service of the State Border Guard Service is critically important. And its provision, the provision of appropriate logistics and training opportunities, which our project for the arrangement and training of units provides, will allow Ukraine to ensure compliance with international maritime law on its territory and, accordingly, ensure the activities of the maritime sector of the economy. After all, Ukraine’s maritime security is an integral component of the world’s maritime security,” said US Embassy Adviser for Maritime Affairs Kevin Keller.
According to military expert, Captain XNUMXst Rank Sergei Gorbachev, military camps are being built by the United States for their own needs - in the future, the Americans can transfer their military Qatari there, which will circumvent the Montreux Convention, which limits the period of stay of watercraft of non-Black Sea states in the Black Sea.
“Such projects are not implemented on the principle of charity, but with far-reaching goals. In this case, most likely, the Americans’ interest lies not only in the development of these Ukrainian Navy bases, but also in their presence there.
Firstly, for sure, during construction there will be Americans there, as was the case in Ochakovo in recent years. Surely they will remain there. Well, their interest, in addition, will lie in the fact that there will be certain points, objects that, one way or another, will work exclusively for American interests. The Sea of Azov is being militarized.
Previously, during Soviet times, there was practically nothing there except for hydrographic objects due to the fact that it was the Soviet Union and the sea was inland. In this case, there is a claim to make the Sea of Azov not only a sea of two states - Russia and Ukraine, but also to establish the presence of foreign naval forces there.
In addition, there was already such information - it is quite possible to deliver American boats to these base points by land or by air, and anchor them there without entering the Black Sea through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, through the Kerch Strait, that is, bypassing the Montreux Convention of watercraft of foreign countries . In this case, the USA. Therefore, the very idea and participation of Americans in this process already suggests that this is a definite threat for us,” Gorbachev said.
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