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Russia takes missile carriers to Black Sea due to danger of staying at bases - Navy

Russia takes missile carriers to Black Sea due to danger of staying at bases - Navy

Russian naval forces do not feel safe in their bases, so they are taking their missile carriers to the Black Sea.

Spokesman of the Naval Forces, Dmytro Pletenchuk, told about this on the air of the Hromadske Radio.

"The russians are forced to maneuver in the waters of the Black Sea, because the Sea of ​​Azov is definitely not the location where they are ready to deploy their combat units. The Black Sea remains. The Turkish straits (ie, the Bosphorus) are closed to the russians according to the Montreux Convention. Therefore, they are forced to maneuver in the waters the Black Sea. There is no place for them to maneuver there, as there is a danger of using Ukrainian naval drones and other means. Therefore, they chose the tactic of hiding in the Novorossiysk base. In order to go to the Black Sea with the number of ships that they did, there had to be a serious reason," Pletenchuk said.

He noted that it was not a military exercise, as their duration is longer. Nor was it due to a change in tactics.

"There is such a probability that this was done in order to urgently concentrate the ship structure. That is, they probably believed that staying at the base point is more dangerous than going out to sea towards Ukrainian drones. At sea, they took various measures to protect this grouping. They turned on GPS spoofing (technology that makes devices give out false information), that is, they tried to secure them as much as possible," Pletenchuk emphasized.

As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on September 16, the aggressor country of russia kept 1 ship on combat duty in the Black Sea - the carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles with a total salvo of up to 4 missiles, there were no enemy ships in the Sea of ​​Azov.