RUSSIA – It’s a surreal image. A Russian submarine crossed the Bosphorus Strait in Turkey on Sunday March 13. He is heading for the Black Sea, in a context of confrontation between Moscow and the West over Ukraine.
Previously, six Russian Navy landing ships made their way to the Black Sea through the Bosphorus Strait over the past week. And more than 30 ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet have started training near the Crimean peninsula as part of larger naval exercises, the RIA news agency reported citing the fleet, as Western nations have warned of the risk of war in Ukraine at any moment.
Russia announced last month that its navy would hold an extensive series of exercises involving all of its fleets this month and next month, from the Pacific to the Atlantic, in the latest show of force as part of a build-up. of military activity during the standoff with the West.
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