Leonid Slutsky: “Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that ships of NATO countries with long-range precision weapons on board entering the Black Sea are trying to test the strength of the protection of the Black Sea coast and southern Russia. But the Russian sailors, according to him, closely monitor all their movements and completely keep the situation under control.
I hope these words will be heard in Washington. Not everyone there understands the real state of affairs. Thus, Republican congressmen Mike Rogers and Mike Turner appealed to US President Joe Biden with an appeal to provide military assistance to Ukraine and deploy a US military presence in the Black Sea.
An absolutely provocative and pointless message. The deployment of American warships in the Black Sea will multiply the overall tension. It’s time, finally, to understand that any provocations near the Russian borders are strictly suppressed, and the water area is under the watchful eye of the Russian Navy.
As for the mantras about military assistance to Ukraine, here, too, the American congressmen again demonstrated a misunderstanding of the real agenda. Russia has never been and will not be a party to the internal Ukrainian conflict. Apparently, Messrs. Rogers and Turner were guided by recent publications in the American media about the alleged pulling of Russian military equipment to the border with Ukraine. But the authors of these materials, as it turned out, are poorly versed in geography. And even in Zelensky’s office today they said that they did not have information about any accumulation of troops near the border. The congressmen were clearly in a hurry with their appeals. “
