USS Porter with other ships during 2020 Sea Breeze in the Black Sea drill last year.
Press TV – Nov 13, 2021
Russia President Vladimir Putin says the US and other NATO allies are carrying out provocative action by sailing warships in the Black Sea close to its territory.
“The United States and its allies in NATO are carrying out unplanned exercises in the Black Sea. Not only is a rather powerful naval group involved in these exercises, but also aviation, including strategic aviation. This is a serious challenge for us,” Putin said in an interview aired Saturday.
Russia’s ministry of defense said it detected six flights by NATO spy planes in airspace over the Black Sea, part of what it described as intensifying reconnaissance by the Western military.
The Russian military also said it was tracking US naval ships in the Black Sea and accused Washington of studying the region as a potential theatre of war.
The warnings came after Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov visited Paris for talks with their French counterparts Florence Parly and Jean-Yves Le Drian in order to de-escalate the situation.
Lavrov said they had discussed an increased presence of NATO naval forces in the Black Sea and the military alliance’s aggressive stance towards his country recently.
France’s foreign and defense ministers issued an unusually blunt statement after the meeting, saying they “clearly warned of the serious consequences of any further possible damage to the territorial integrity of Ukraine”.
The statement came after inflammatory suggestions by the US and the Europeans that Moscow might be weighing an attack on Ukraine.
US top diplomat Antony Blinken on Wednesday warned Russia against making what he called another “serious mistake” on Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said after visiting Washington that his country had asked the US for urgent security support, including intelligence sharing, or air defense systems, “or anything”.
Ukraine’s Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov is travelling to Washington early next week for further consultations, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukraine has fought a war with pro-Moscow separatists in its eastern regions since 2014 when the Crimea peninsula voted in a referendum to rejoin Russia from Kiev.
The US held a meeting with 30 ambassadors at the level of the NATO transatlantic alliance in Brussels on Wednesday to address concerns over Russia’s military deployments and perceived threats to Ukraine.
Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman, dismissed new alarmist warnings by the West, saying that Russia was “not a threat to anyone”.
“We have repeatedly said that the movement of our armed forces on our territory should not be of concern to anyone,” he added.
He said it was up to Moscow where it deployed within its borders. “Such headlines do nothing more than pointlessly and groundlessly fuel tensions.”
The US has delivered more than $2.5 billion in military aid to Ukraine since the Crimea conflict in 2014, including Javelin anti-tank missiles. The Senate’s version of the 2022 defense budget increases the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative from $250 million to $300 million per year, including $75 million specifically for lethal assistance.
Rep. Don Bacon, member of the House Armed Services Committee, said that the US should “help Ukraine have the weapons and training they need to deter Russia. Our stance should have zero ambiguity.”
The US and NATO could not launch or sustain a Black Sea campaign. Closing the Bosphorous for good would be the work of minutes for the Russians.
What the US and its British puppet are trying to do is encourage the Ukraine and Poland – or smaller states like Lithuania – to start a war. Like 1939, they are being set up, but are too stupid to realise it.
Still no mention of CIA director Burns’s Moscow trip.
The US can deliver all the military aid they like… the majority of Ukraine soldiers will not fight the Russian military.
My guess is that substantial forces will be imported in the form of contractors/mercenaries to bolster the very weak military. Many young Ukrainians have fled the country to avoid conscription.
The world will rejoice when ZATO is squashed like a bug.
Putin, like all politicians, regardless of country of origin are lying hypocrites. He deploys his military to the Ukrainian border. Then in true kike fashion he talks out the other side of his mouth accusing the West of military aggression. Yes, his mother was Jewish. If anyone is ignorant of this fact; he surrounds himself with members of Chabad Lubavitch; the most hateful, murderous group of kike religious fanatics. Putin is no hero to anyone but his kike masters, just like his Western political counterparts. Please people get with the program. There is nothing heroic about “comrad Putin.” The scene being played out is for public consumption. The time will come when they finally show their hands. It will be swift and deadly from both sides. In other words, all hell will break lose. The Daily Fail is a rag just like it’s cousin here in the States; Jew York times is Jew owned and operated. Yes, it is the Jews. The non-Jew is just their goyim lackeys: expendable and cannon fodder.
Don’t worry about it, its just the Zionist Cryptocrats playing chess against themselves..Ratchild moves an American piece, & then moves a Russian one. The moronic masses think the ‘conflict’ is real, but its all a fixed game controlled by one mongrel cult, to advance their anti-white geopolitical demographic designs..
PUTIN SEND A SCRAMJET A BOMB
ON WASHINGTON DC !
USRAEL DONT STIR UP THE BEAR !
his cave border is west belarus + west ukraine !
@ LERCH
PUTIN IS RIGHT : US MILITARY AGRESSION
IN ENLARGING NATO TERRITORY .
or is there a russian deployment in cuba or latin
america ?
Maybe the strategy is to make the Black Sea a no-go area for any ships after some kind of set-to that falls short of war (such as sinking a merchant vessel of a neutral country), to end up with Russia losing its only access to the Med? It would be risky and might not succeed or may result in war, but if Amerika can stir up trouble after mugs like Britain, Australia and east Europe agree to fight and die it may accept that risk.
MM: Countries that do not have a Black Sea coast have a treaty limit on the number of vessels, and a time limit on how long they can stay in the Black Sea. Difficult to see how the US, NATO can fight a sustained war in the Black Sea. The Russians could sink a few ships in Bosphorus.
@ Carl Jones. Like I said, they wouldn’t want a war there but might still end up with one. They may hope strategically to close the Black Sea and Bosphorous to Russia. Who knows what that might be worth to Amerika, especially when it’s other people’s lives on the line, if Russia’s navy can be limited to its northern and eastern ports with no access at all to the Med, the Straits of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal?
And if a war does start there it doesn’t mean war is limited to there. It’s not necessary that any other battles need happen there. If America could prevent Russia from using the Med would it sacrifice Brits, Aussies and Europeans to that cause? It would harm Russia’s mobility and war effort. They’d like that.
It seems to be warming up nicely. This time quite a few european nations will cease to exist. Let’s hope it’s the warmongering ones. Poland started WW2. I just feel sorry for Germany.