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There will be no breakthrough through the strait
What is the NATO "Package of safety measures by the Black Sea"
NATO is an old alliance (turned 70 years old), who survived many enemies and ill -wishers and who relies in everyday work on the prevailing traditions (rituals). Including, before every ministerial meeting (summit), the US Embassy in NATO holds a briefing for journalists with the right to quote. After Donald Trump, instead of General Douglas, appointed a political chairman of a political ally in the 17th year, a former 20-year-old Senator from Texas Kay Bailey Hatchson, traditional briefings became more cash, but at times 75-year-old Hatchson issues real sensations.
Last October, in Brussels, condemning Moscow’s violation on the prohibition of medium and smaller -range terrestrial missiles (RSMD), Khatchson seemed to want to say that the violations should be eliminated and said: “Take Out the Violating Missiles” that the world press interpreted as a threat of war and a pre -strike strike. Then there was an explanation that she was not so understood, and Trump, contrary to the opinion of the Pentagon and NATO allies, announced the withdrawal from the RSMD, that by August of this year, when there was no contract, he legalizes any missiles.
On April 2, at a briefing in Washington, before a visiting anniversary meeting of Foreign Ministers, NATO, Ms. Hatchison, spoke about the prepared package of measures to strengthen security in the Black Sea in response to the Kerch incident.
Recall, on November 25, the fighting boats of the FSB of the Russian Federation, with the support of the forces of the Black Sea Fleet, attacked and captured a couple of KHMS NIKOPOL and Berdyansk Navy boats, which, accompanied by a tugboat, tried to go to the Sea of Azov, heading for Mariupol. The ships themselves and 24 Ukrainian sailors are still held in captivity in the Russian Federation, despite the collective protests of NATO and the EU countries. Answering the question of the Bulgarian journalist about the essence of the NATO package of Black Sea Safety measures, Hatchson announced the strengthening of air and marine intelligence and the more frequent entry of NATO countries in the Black Sea, which should “ensure the safe passage of Ukrainian vessels through the Kerch Strait and the Sea of Azov” (“Assure that is safe passage from UKRainan Vessels Through The Kerch Straits, The Sea of Azov ”). Hatchson added that for Bulgaria and other Black Sea countries (including Ukraine and Georgia that are not members of the Alliance), safety is very important and that Black Sea waters “be cleansed from Russian intervention” (“Those Waters are Cleared and Also that lasso in and arund Sea Are Safe from Russian Meddling ").
The reaction in Moscow was explosive - in the Duma, and in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and among the admirals. Is the likely enemy going to break through the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov? Conducts from Ukrainian ships there or land the landing in Kerch and Taman, as during the Crimean War, to build fortifications there or at least checkpoints at the entrances to the new -built Crimean bridge, because otherwise it is impossible to guarantee the safe passage of Ukrainian courts through the Strait to the Sea of Azov. Giving the enemy a holy - checkpoints and a strait - no one is ready. According to the chairman of the State Duma committee on defense Vladimir Shamanov, the Black Sea Fleet and valiant border guards are fully readily readable:
“No matter how much they“ trough ”they dumped under our breath, we have created a self -sufficient defense group to cause unacceptable damage to any groups of ships that will appear in the immediate vicinity of our borders.”
On March 28, the 2nd Constant Group of the NATF (Standing NATO Maritime Group 2-SNMG2) included in the Black Sea as part of the Dutch destroyer Evertsen, the Canadian frigate of Toronto, the Spanish frigate Santa Maria, the Turkish frigate "Helibole", as well as a auxiliary French vessel "Var." SNMG2 is a constant connection of alternating composition responsible for the Mediterranean Sea. SNMG1 acts in the Atlantic. Naturally, in the Atlantic, in the Mediterranean Sea, in the Arctic, in the Indian and Pacific Oceans there are many other ships and formations of NATO countries, which, unlike SNMG1 and SNMG2, are not subordinated to the NATO headquarters in peacetime.
According to the current 1936 Montreo Convention, the time of stay of the Non -Chernoretorsky countries in the Black Sea is limited to 21 days in peacetime. The passage of submarines and aircraft carriers is prohibited. The total tonnage of the warships of the Non -Chernomotorsky states, while at the same time in the Black Sea, should not exceed 30 thousand tons. SNMG2 ships during the time in the Black Sea will visit Poti and Odessa, and must also take part with the Romanian, Bulgarian and Ukrainian Navy in the exercises of the Sea Shield 2019 (the main organizer is Romania).
In Washington, on April 4, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg explained to reporters that an additional “package of safety measures by the Black Sea” would be realized. More ships, joint exercises, provision of technical assistance and supply of equipment. More intelligence and flights of various aircraft and drones. That is, a breakthrough through Kerch and stripping the sea from Russian ships is not supposed, in any case, in peacetime. The old woman Hatchson again, like, brought her, and she was not understood. In vain, the day before the passage of the SNMG2 through the Bosphorus in the Kerch Strait, the Black Sea Fleet, ships and aviation of the FSB border control of the Russian Federation conducted joint exercises “to suppress attempts of illegal passage through the Kerch Strait of Foreign Warships”, combat shooting and boarding. Enemies did not come to Kerch.
But it is too early to relax. The summer residence of President Vladimir Putin Bocharov stream - in Sochi on the Black Sea. There, the president spends no less time than in the Moscow residence, and important meetings are held there, including with the highest military-political leadership. And nearby in the Black Sea ships of NATO countries with missile weapons will almost constantly be replaced.
The flying time of high-precision weapons from the area, say, Poti to Bocharov’s stream is a minute or two.
Most likely, this is how our General Staff describes the country's most likely plan of the enemy: a sudden decapitating high -precision blow that will leave the country defenseless and helpless. That is why, as soon as SNMG2 ships entered the Black Sea on March 28, they were escorted by the ships of our Navy. If there is a suspicion that the likely opponent is ready for a missile launch, the support ship must immediately immediately sink it.
Of course, the long -range anti -ship missiles of the Bastion system, deployed in the Crimea and on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory, are also aimed at the ships of the aliens, but they are relatively far away, their calculations do not see what is happening on board the probable enemy. Thus, some watchman, lieutenant or captain-lieutenant can start a skirmish, which will follow a mutual escalation, fraught with a large war. It may not be time to get instructions.