Rising tension in the Black Sea

RUSSIA / FSU POLITICS - In Brief 06 Jul 2021 by Alex Teddy
On July 5 Russia sent a warship equipped with a long range cruise missile to the Black Sea. A NATO exercise is ongoing in the Black Sea at the moment. The NATO exercise is called "Sea Breeze 2021". Russian ships that had been serving off the coast of Syria are also returning to the Black Sea. Their home port is Sevastopol. Moscow says this is a routine voyage to restock.S-400 systems and Pantsir S missile systems are being trained, as well as jets and choppers.32 NATO countries and Ukraine started the exercises on July 5. The drills involve 5,000 military personnel, 32 warships and 40 planes and choppers. This is an unusually large exercise. On July 3 NATO accused the Russian Air Force of buzzing the USS Ross and Russian warships of shadowing the ship. If the Russian Navy followed the US warship, it would not be surprising. The Dutch accused Russian jets of buzzing its HNMLS Evertsen in June 2021.The Defense Ministry has been very keen to let the media know what it is doing. Russia is demonstrating its capabilities. Moscow asked NATO to cancel Sea Breeze 2021 but NATO refused. NATO is emphasizing that it still regards Crimea as Ukrainian. This is reassuring to Ukraine, which has been disappointed that it has not yet been allowed to join NATO.

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