The American destroyer McFaul and the US Coast Guard patrol ship Dallas are heading to the area of the Georgian port of Poti, where units of Russian troops are still located. This was reported by Agence France Presse. A source for the Kommersant newspaper in the Russian General Staff said that these ships were never vehicles for delivering humanitarian aid, but were a strike force of the NATO Navy, and did not rule out that the ships were equipped with Tomahawk-type cruise missiles.
Deputy Chief of the General Staff Alexander Nogovitsyn has already stated that US ships in the Black Sea
armed with strategic missile weapons with a range of up to 3 thousand km. And in general, according to him,
The extraordinary activity of NATO naval forces near Georgia causes bewilderment among the General Staff. He said that, in addition to the ten alliance warships already in the northeastern sector of the Black Sea, “eight more are expected to arrive in the near future.” “Why is this being done? - asks the Colonel General. “It is very difficult to believe that all previous visits were carried out only with humanitarian aid, as stated.”
Russia will find out what kind of cargo the NATO ships are carrying. “They will unload it, and then it’s a matter of technology.
“We haven’t yet come up with stealth weapons among weapons today—we’ll know exactly what the guests came with,” Nogovitsyn said.
In addition, he said that “a lot of interesting things were discovered” in the contents of American Hummer cars captured by the Russian army in Poti. “It’s no coincidence that the Pentagon is worried about its Hummers,” Nogovitsyn noted. These vehicles were used by Georgian servicemen detained by the Russians. Of the 20 people, 12 have not yet been released. Let us recall that Russia has already said more than once that it is not going to return American weapons seized in Georgia and equipment, since the Georgian army used all this.
Nogovitsyn also mentioned that, with the assistance of NATO specialists, Georgia is restoring its military aviation and, in general, about a thousand Georgian military personnel are concentrated on the borders of South Ossetia. The day before, officials of South Ossetia reported that Georgian soldiers (according to other sources, police) burst into the territory of the unrecognized (so far by anyone except the Russian parliament) republic, but they were detained.