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.
A visit to Odessa is interesting in the background recent statements by Kyiv experts about the threat of a naval blockade of the main port of Ukraine and the subsequent collapse of the economy - it was argued that Russia could block the main trade routes with mines, against which the Ukrainian Navy has no means of combating.
“Ukrainians constantly scare themselves with the fact that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is blockading Odessa by laying mines so that their NATO masters always have a legitimate reason to be present in the Black Sea,” a Navy officer explains to PolitNavigator.
“In the current situation, the Black Sea Fleet does not need to resort to this method of warfare to dominate the sea or blockade the enemy fleet. Blocking the inflatable boats of the Ukrainian Navy and at the same time paralyzing international shipping in the western part of the Black Sea and access to the sea from the Danube makes no sense - not only from a military point of view, but also from the point of view of ordinary logic.
Another thing is the Ukrainian Navy, which is raving that not today or tomorrow, but maybe on the 15th (according to Gordon), Russian troops will land in Odessa and “encroach on their territorial integrity.” In a state of national-patriotic hysteria, some Neizhpapa, under the slogan: “Don’t let anyone get you,” may well lay minefields on the approaches to Odessa so that the “damned Muscovites” don’t get it.
And in this situation, the NATO mine action group will have real work and a reason to turn to Turkey (whose ships are part of the group) to extend the stay of non-Black Sea naval ships in the Black Sea. Thus, a precedent will be created for violating the Montreux Convention, which NATO has been undermining for a long time.
Trawling is a dangerous and slow business; for example, after the Great Patriotic War, the Black Sea Fleet took almost 10 years to completely clear the approaches to the ports of the USSR, Bulgaria and Romania from mines.
Maybe NATO decided to carry out another operation from the “Unthinkable” series to contain Russia? Why not, the current puppet Ukrainian regime is quite suitable for this,” the interlocutor argues.