{"id":81842,"date":"2021-11-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schillerinstitute.com\/?p=81842"},"modified":"2021-11-10T21:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T02:00:03","slug":"russian-defense-ministry-warns-nato-black-sea-exercises-foreshadow-possible-ukraine-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/blog\/2021\/11\/10\/russian-defense-ministry-warns-nato-black-sea-exercises-foreshadow-possible-ukraine-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Defense Ministry Warns NATO Black Sea Exercises Foreshadow Possible Ukraine Conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:18px\"><strong>Russian Defense Ministry Warns NATO Black Sea Exercises Foreshadow Possible Ukraine Conflict &#8211;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nov. 9, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Russian Defense Ministry warned today that its forces are closely watching the U.S.-led multinational exercises in the Black Sea multinational group of armed forces near the Russian border&#8220; through exercises shaped by possible military action by the Ukrainian regime in southeast Ukraine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <em>Tass<\/em> report on the Defense Ministry statement reads, in part, as follows:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCurrently, the U.S. Navy\u2019s guided missile destroyer Porter, tanker John Lenthall and command ship Mount Whitney are deployed to the Black Sea. Two US Air Force B-1B long-range strategic bombers performed flights over the Black Sea at a distance of 100 km from the Russian state border\u2026. \u2018These are unscheduled moves by the U.S. military that is setting up a multinational group of armed forces in close proximity to the Russian border,\u2019 the Defense Ministry stressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs the Russian Defense Ministry explained, the U.S. warships have arrived to take part in multinational drills that the U.S. European Command is holding in the Black Sea region. Such moves are a destabilizing factor in the region and, in particular, pursue the goal of the military exploitation of Ukrainian territory, the ministry stressed.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201c\u2018Considering that in addition to the U.S. Navy, the drills will involve tactical, patrol and strategic aircraft, and also the contingents of the armed forces of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, this is evidence of an attempt to study the prospective theater of military operations in [the] case that Kiev prepares a use-of-force scenario in the southeast\u2019,\u201d the statement says.<br><br>The Russian Defense Ministry is doing more than \u201cclosely watching\u201d these U.S.-led exercises. The Black Sea Fleet\u2019s small anti-submarine warfare ships and anti-submarine helicopter have carried out exercises for locating, tracking, and then attacking \u201ca notional enemy submarine\u201d in the Black Sea, <em>Tass<\/em> reported yesterday, practicing air defense for a surface strike group in transit by sea, accomplishing surface-to-air missile and artillery firings against aerial targets.&#8220;\u00a0 In this extremely dangerous situation, U.S. Sec. of State Blinken is holding a \u201cStrategic Dialogue\u201d with his Ukrainian counterpart this Wednesday (Nov. 10). U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price spoke of how the U.S. supports \u201cde-escalation in the region and a diplomatic resolution to the conflict in eastern Ukraine,\u201d but then went on to repeat that \u201cwe stand with Ukraine, we stand with Kyiv, and condemn all Russian aggression against Ukraine in all forms.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Defense Ministry Warns NATO Black Sea Exercises Foreshadow Possible Ukraine Conflict &#8211; Nov. 9, 2021 (EIRNS)\u2014The Russian Defense Ministry warned today that its forces are closely watching the U.S.-led multinational exercises in the Black Sea multinational group of armed forces near the Russian border&#8220; through exercises shaped by possible military action by the Ukrainian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":81843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[505,508,639,660,766,641,33],"tags":[842],"class_list":["post-81842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","category-updates-geopolitics","category-global-diplomacy","category-russia","category-ukraine","category-united-states","category-updates-war","tag-lang-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81842"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81854,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81842\/revisions\/81854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2.schillermeet.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}