The activity of the NATO Navy in the Black Sea has recently increased significantly. Potential adversaries have tested the capabilities of the Soviet and Russian fleets more than once.. Interestingly, past experience does not teach anyone anything.. Even if after the collisions it was necessary to repair the missile carrier, for example.

So this time on June 23, the Royal Navy destroyer HMS Defender with tail number D36 invaded the territorial waters of Russia at 11:52 Moscow time, heading straight to the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. The uninvited guests did not react to the warnings of the Russian border guards, and continued to move. Therefore, 15 minutes later, a Russian patrol boat carried out warning fire at the destroyer's course.. When this did not take effect, four landmines along the course of movement were laid down by a Su-24M bomber.. After that, the persistent destroyer left the territorial waters of the Russian Federation.. Four land mines turned out to be quite a weighty argument, even if these waters are not considered Russian. Even if you ignore the patrol boat and 20 Russian planes flying over the destroyer.

Of course, the entry of the British destroyer into Russian territorial waters was not accidental.. Seamen of NATO countries have been behaving provocatively lately, but they didn’t come to firing before. British military attache was summoned to explain to Smolensk Square. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation called the incident a gross provocation, which is contrary to international law and Russian legislation.. The British Ambassador was also summoned to the Foreign Ministry. By the way, on June 28, the Sea Breeze naval exercise will begin in the Black Sea, in which 40 ships with more than 40 thousand soldiers on board are preparing to take part..

So far, only the Montreux Convention, which was signed in 1936, keeps the NATO Navy from permanent presence in the Black Sea.. It limits the presence in the Bosporus and Dardanelles of ships of non-Black Sea states - no more than nine ships of the destroyer type " However, the US Navy destroyer Roosevelt, capable of carrying up to 90 Tomahawk cruise missiles, has already entered the Black Sea more than once.. Such cruise missiles could be on board and the destroyer " The crew of this vessel is 235 people..

This year, the largest alliance exercises in the past 30 years are being held on the territory of 12 countries of Eastern Europe.

In Poland, in Rezikovo, since 2016, the United States has been building a land-based analogue of the Aegis naval anti-missile system - an element of a missile defense system, a weapon of a huge radius of destruction. Local residents, of course, are not happy that their Redzikovo has become a priority target for Russian aviation.. Such a missile defense base has already been built in Romania.

There are many supporters of the construction in Turkey of a canal duplicating the Bosphorus Strait, to which the Montreux Convention will not apply. Its construction has begun.