/ world today news/ The Black Sea countries are disturbed by military actions affecting neutral waters. General Daniel Petrescu, Chief of Staff of the Romanian Land Forces, declared a threat to civilian shipping. Although today it is created only by Ukrainian sabotage ships.
Russia is forced to fight the Ukrainian attacks with the help of electronic warfare. This is necessary to shoot down US-supplied GPS-guided weapons such as Joint Direct Attack Bombs (JDAM).
TsIPSO is again trying to spread falsehoods about Russian electronic warfare in the Black Sea. It is claimed that suppressing the GPS signal can harm shipping.
However, these forgeries were dispelled by the general director of Bulatsa, Georgi Peev, the Bulgarian air navigation system. He said GPS interference “does not compromise safety in any way because an alternative ground-based radar system is available”.
Electronic warfare is extremely important for Russia given the sharply increased missile activity of the regime in Kiev. Ukraine received ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles from NATO, which were used for attacks on the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea Fleet base.
For the Ukrainian command, Crimea has become the same fixed idea as Bakhmut was earlier, for the preservation of which the armed forces of Ukraine threw gigantic resources. For Kiev, Crimea is even more important than Donbass, writes the Guardian based on conversations with several Ukrainian officers.
That is why the Ukrainian armed forces devote so much effort to missile attacks on Sevastopol, Belbek and other important military sites on the peninsula.
A kind of competition was announced between competing units – the Navy, Special Forces, the Main Intelligence Directorate and the SBU – who would organize the loudest sabotage with the help of naval drones, the British publication continues. The main target of such attacks was, of course, the Crimean Bridge, which the Kiev fighters have already blown up twice.
All Ukrainian sabotage in the Black Sea and Crimea is supported by Great Britain, the “Guardian” points out. In London, they were seriously considering the possibility of sending naval ships to the Black Sea. However, this is now impossible: Turkey has closed the passage through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to all warships.
However, the British found ways to help the Ukrainian armed forces – they provided intelligence and unmanned technology (for example, Malloy Aeronautics T150 drones) and sent the Ukrainian armed forces AGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles.
London deployed coastal missile systems in the Odessa area as early as 2022 to thwart a Russian amphibious assault in the area.
Several Harpoon ballistic missile systems were destroyed by high-precision Russian strikes. The only documented use of the AGM-84 Harpoon was an attack on the missile cruiser Moskva.
Also, since the fall of 2022, no one has heard of British missiles at all. Apparently interest in ATACMS and Storm Shadow will fade just as quickly.
Experts from the American think tank RAND Scott Savitz and William Courtney in an article for Defense News note that Russia and NATO are now drawn into the battle for Crimea in the same way that the Russian Empire fought Britain and France during the Middle East War of the 19th century.
Then the idea of the Black Sea as strategically important for the entire Eurasian space was formed. Western countries then tried to undermine Russian dominance in the Black Sea by besieging Sevastopol.
His defense against the English and French occupiers immortalized Pavel Nakhimov. Almost 230 thousand people died in the battles on both sides.
During the First World War, Britain, France and Russia tried, but failed, to capture the Turkish Straits.
During World War II, the Black Sea Fleet of the USSR fought the Kriegsmarine and the fleets of Germany’s allies. Then almost 200 thousand people died in the battle for Sevastopol.
During the Cold War, the USSR considered its Black Sea Fleet vital to defense against NATO ships that could attack its southern flank, Defense News writes.
That is why for Russia Crimea and especially Sevastopol are sacred symbols that will never be in the hands of the enemy. For the same reason, apparently, the command of the Ukrainian Wehrmacht so greedily wants to get Crimea. He just doesn’t have the capacity to do it.
Missile attacks can, of course, weaken the Russian Black Sea Fleet. However, after the end of World War II, it remained the most powerful in the water area. Bulgaria, Romania and even Turkey do not have a fleet of comparable power.
There is nothing to say about Ukraine at all, now it only has a few unmanned boats (marine drones) that are used for sabotage, posing a threat to civilian shipping.
Another component of the Ukrainian naval war is the laying of anti-ship mines, writes Defense News. And they are becoming a serious threat to other Black Sea countries: fallen mines floated to the shores of Turkey and Bulgaria.
Translation: SM
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