Bombed

Russian border guards fired at the British destroyer and threw four bombs in front of him. The confrontation of fleets in the Black Sea has reached the extreme point

On June 23, at 11:52 Moscow time, the destroyer of the URS (controlled missile weapon) HMS Defender (D36), moving from Odessa to Batumi, proceeded through territorial waters in the area of ​​Cape Fiolent in half an hour from the Sevastopol naval base of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Watchtower of the Border Ship of the Russian Federation, after a warning under the established procedure, opened a preventive fire. Ten minutes later, the Su-24M front-line bomber dropped four fragmentation-flood bombs at the course of the ship, after which the British ship entered international waters. The English side officially denies the use of weapons in the incident. Sources of the editorial office in the Black Sea Fleet confirm the shooting.

The tendency, which recently, has not tired of warning Novaya Gazeta experts, is growing before our eyes. The incidents between the Armed Forces of the NATO and Russia countries became a reality. It remains to wish that it does not reach the Taranians, as in the attack of the TFR "Bezyvetoy" to the American Yorrtaun American cruiser in 1988.

If in Syria such clashes, even ending the death of military personnel, were considered by the American and Russian command as unintentional or caused by fatal circumstances, then shooting under Sevastopol, taking into account all circumstances, cannot be called chance.

The origins of the incident lie in the dual legal status of Crimea. For the whole world, these are the land of Ukraine de jure. For Russia, this is its territory. At the same time, in marine law there is the right to peaceful passage through territorial waters.

The US Navy and Great Britain believe that they go through the territorial waters of Ukraine. The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine regularly confirms this right.

Taking advantage of the right to pass in the Crimean Cape Khersones and Fiolent area, the US fleets and Great Britain regularly demonstrate the non -recognition of the actions of Russian law in these waters.

The British destroyer D35 Dragon carried out the previous passage through the water guarded by our border guards in October last year. The route was exactly the same: from Odessa to Batumi. Russian ships accompanied the Englishman, he walked along the very edge of territorial waters. In the same way, the representative of the British Ministry of Defense said that the ship was moving, using the right to peaceful passage through the territorial waters of Ukraine. And in the same way, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry confirmed the permission.

Of the recent such incidents, one can recall the visit of the US Navy destroyer John McCain for two kilometers into the territorial waters of Russia in the Gulf of Peter the Great, at the base of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation Vladivostok. Similar actions are a reflection of the naval doctrine and current policy. They cannot be a gag. Not a single warship commander in the world will take responsibility for creating a similar situation without a straight team from above.

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Here is how Alexander Reingoldovich Kaszer, the flagship navigator of the division, one of the most authoritative veterans of the fleet regarding marine law (he was at one time was entrusted with the famous “Swedish Komsomolets”): “The use of weapons is spent only in the rules created by states for their territorial waters. In international marine law it is not. But it requires a vessel that received warning signals of any kind to contact the border service at the international frequency. The British destroyer went on his combat mission - the transition route. He received points of the passage from his Foreign Office. This is a combat service, and it goes by order signed for the ship of such a rank by no less than the chief of the UK Navy. And the Foreign Minister of Great Britain should know about this unequivocally. At the same time, the commander of the ship perfectly understands that if he does not execute the command, after preventive signals, he can be drowned. ”

All passages of NATO warships in the waters of Crimea and other places are planned in advance with the participation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the relevant states. In the same way, the expulsion of the HMS Defender took place using the same type of combat aircraft equipped with a Khibiny radio electronic warfare complex. However, warning in the course of this confrontation between the will of the Supreme High Command of Russia and Great Britain was opened for the first time. Even in April 2014, when the same Russian aircraft cut down the radar, who approached the destroyer of the US Navy “Donald Cook” and 12 times (evaluate the irreconcilable decisiveness of the Russian naval breeders), imitated the rocket attack on it, did not reach real shooting.

It is obvious that the naval confrontation in Russian waters has been growing in growing since 2014.

And in the near future, the United States and Great Britain will not abandon the possibility of both demonstrating to the Putin government its superiority off its coast, and approve the right to walk where they consider it necessary.

In the London weekly of Spectator, this policy is reflected as follows: “It is likely that its task was to test Russia's readiness to protect the occupied coastal line ... The Navy needs to understand how far Russia is ready to go during its operations off the coast of Syria. Britain does not want someone to see that she was retreating. "

Obviously, while the belonging of Crimea is the most important international factor, NATO will continue such actions and hope for the best Russian leadership. In general, this is the consensus of the English and American press on June 24. Ben Hodges, a former NATO forces commander in Europe, also approved the actions of the British sailors. But, perhaps, the main character, for which the HMS Defender and went under the bombing, remained in the shade.

Exactly at the moment when the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergey Shoigu rose to the rostrum of the Moscow International Security Conference, opened his folder and greeted dozens of high -ranking foreign military (119 defense ministers), the commander of the British destroyer gave the order and moved to the “peaceful pass through Ukrainian waters”. It is not worth excluding that shooting was open precisely because our military very emotionally connected these events. Look at the map, count the time and the average speed - everything converges. And all guests of the traditional event gathering allies and partners of Russia from around the world understood this.

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A day after the incident, it became known that the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced the upcoming revision of the regulation of the preventive fire on the ship-bosses. The issues of application for these purposes of combat aircraft are still not settled. For her, a separate regulation will be created with the transfer of the nomenclature permitted to the use of ammunition.

According to sources, this is caused by the analysis of the incident with the passage of the British destroyer HMS Defender for the traverse of Cape Fiolent in controversial, from the point of view of international marine law, territorial waters. During the operation, the Su-25M bomber used four fragmentation-flood bombs. Since the dispute of their fragments exceeds 100 m.

In future incidents, it is proposed to use uncontrollable aviation missiles of lower power. They have more accuracy, but much less dangerous. All this indicates that the Russian military-political circles seriously thought about a decrease in the risk of developing a spontaneous uncontrollable conflict with the fleets of NATO countries.