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Written by Lucas Leiroz, journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, geopolitical consultant
The UK appears to be close to launching a new dangerous anti-Russian naval policy. According to reports, the British Navy will send new combat ships and heavy weapons to the Black Sea in order to help Ukraine strengthen its regional presence there. It appears that a formal agreement between both countries will be signed in the near future, setting out the terms for naval cooperation, which will obviously result in increased tensions with Russia.
The data was published by The Telegraph. The outlet’s sources claim that the agreement between the UK and Ukraine will be signed “in the coming weeks”, generating expanded British participation in the activities of the Ukrainian Navy. The Black Sea, which is currently a conflict zone between Russian and Ukrainian forces, is expected to receive a big number of British military ships that will support Kiev in hostilities.
The news comes shortly after the British Ministry of Defense announced the sending of at least two mine clearing ships to Ukraine. The measure was taken within the framework of a coalition of naval support for Kiev that also involves Norway. As the UK is one of the most active sponsors of the Ukrainian regime, constantly sending packages of weapons and equipment to Kiev, the delivery was not seen as something “surprising” at the time, but, apparently, London still plans to further deepen its interventionism, starting to participate in even more actions in the Black Sea.
According to anonymous sources mentioned by the newspaper, the new agreement would also make it possible to send heavy ground and air weapons, with the aim of making Ukrainian units close to the Black Sea more “interoperable” with NATO. More modern and lethal versions of British ship-based Brimstone missiles are also expected to supply the Ukrainian Navy, giving it more capability for the high-intensity fighting that is currently taking place in the region.
In addition, it is planned to advance in the training of commando troops focused on amphibious assault and mine-clearing operations. The UK has been training many Ukrainian troops since the beginning of the Russian military intervention. It is estimated that more than 30,000 Ukrainian soldiers were trained by the British last year as part of the so-called “Operation Interflex”. Now, it is believed that, under the new agreement, Navy’s special forces training programs will be expanded.
Unconfirmed rumors also indicate that the new security pact between the UK and Kiev will have as one of its objectives to provide guarantees to Ukraine regarding post-conflict British aid. Faced with Ukraine’s evident military defeat, concerns are growing about possible aid packages to rebuild Ukraine in a post-war scenario, which is why Kiev officials are expected to pressure their partners to include guarantees in this regard in new agreements signed with Western countries.
In fact, all these measures seem irresponsible and anti-strategic from a realistic point of view. It is more than clear that no Western aid will be able to make Ukraine reverse the military scenario of the conflict, which is absolutely controlled by the Russian Federation. Defeats on the battlefield, territorial losses and the humiliating failure of their attempted “counteroffensive” have proven that Kiev’s forces have no chance of defeating their adversaries, and that it is pointless to continue supporting the neo-Nazi regime with weapons, money and equipment.
The situation is particularly delicate for Ukraine in the Black Sea, where Russia is focused on destroying all enemy targets, including suspicious commercial ships and critical infrastructure. Kiev has been using the region’s ports to store weapons, as well as transporting military equipment and troops via ships disguised as commercial vessels. After suffering several attacks against its territory due to the Ukrainian military use of civilian naval infrastructure, Moscow decided to consider such suspicious ships and ports as legitimate targets.
In this sense, the UK may be making a serious mistake by planning to expand its participation in Black Sea’s hostilities. British ships sent to the Ukrainian Navy will be seen by the Russians as a priority target and it is likely that most of the vessels will be neutralized even before they begin to be operated by Kiev’s forces. Moscow is not willing to tolerate any foreign interventionism in the region and is focused on preventing further attacks on Russian civilians from Ukrainian units in the Black Sea, so there will certainly be efforts to destroy all equipment sent by London.
Instead of creating new military agreements and aid packages, the West should simply encourage Kiev to negotiate peace, ending hostilities without further damage.
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brits are a miserable bunch. they are on a downward trajectory and now agreed to make clowns of themselves in ukraine for their american “friends”. britain is a scourge on the planet. a country that involves itself in nothing but the most despicable duplicitous, back stabbing, sadistic sub human behaviors
i hope the russians are smart enough not to let british ships operate freely in the war zone as they please, but come up with something smart. something like releasing fuel on an american drone, which then fell into the sea. coincidences happen.
turkey is in charge of both bosforus and dardanelles straits. and there’s still in place the policy allowing only the military vessels belonging to the black sea countries. good luck to uk trying to skirt that policy. they can only do it if they plant a ukro flag on their ships, and that will just invite russia to target them.
this is nothing but virtue signaling from the uk.
its the anglos. the celtic components of britain are much more pro russian and pro palestinian than the english. we know the empire is finished but the english like their american cousins struggle to accept the reality of their demise. they still think their fighting the great game and are a peer competitor of russia thats how delusional they are. millions of russians are of scottish descent and many scots are proud that scotsmen founded sevastopol as the main russian naval port.
i should have added that harvard university studied the dna of the scots and discovered many scots had genetic ancestry from the russian steppe.
totally true and confirmed
relatively intense warfare in the black sea is nothing new, for example the sinking of the flagship cruiser moskva was directed by nato as it was not within the capabilities of the afu. the british government assumes that russia will not dare to retaliate. nato can destroy russian pipelines, smuggle weapons, sink a flagship and russia still abides the “grain deal”?? until the russian political command changes course, we cannot expect any progress except of a long war of attrition.
good point about moskva however, i would suggest that british carrier hms prince of wale was loserly decomissioned without a single conclusive deployment at sea following the sinking of moskva.. there might be a link..
as far as i know, the bosphorus is closed to the passage of military ships, except for those that had their home port in the black sea before the start of the conflict. no country has the option according to the agreement from the 1930s sail with new ships.
the montreux convention of 1936 states: according to article 19, when there’s a war that doesn’t involve turkey, warships from the warring states can’t use the bosporus straits — unless they’re returning to home bases in the black sea.
someone has reminded the uk they are nothing without control of the usa. so now they are in a hurry to start a war before biden is dumped by the american people.
jen ať je pošlou, myslím, že rusy už svrbí prst na spoušti: mají jim co oplácet : křižník moskva, krymský most, nordstream, sevastopol,buču a mnoho dalších prasáren co britové spolu s ukrajinci napáchali! tak soudruzi z “malé británie” jen směle tam pošlete svou queen mary, zirkon už čeká!
this toothless impoverished amerikan colony must import used tampon from amerikan lgbt hillbillies
post brexit the british could easily have been the middle man, like india now, between russia and the eu to trade commodities, refine oil, provide shipping finance, insurance and made a fortune. idiots in charge in the uk.
control of the black sea region is a big reason for imperial expansion into the ukraine. for it, the black sea war is quite separate to the land war – so it will drive conflict there for as long as it physically controls the maritime hinterland west of the dnieper. why is why imho the russian army has to occupy that region if russia is to end the black sea conflict.