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The Ukrainian army "sank" the same Russian warship for the second time?
At present, as the important town of Avdeyevka in eastern Ukraine changes hands, Russia and Ukraine are fighting fiercely on a broader front.
Ukrainska Pravda said on March 5** that the Crimean bridge has been temporarily closed for more than 8 hours, and sources in the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence Agency confirmed that in the early morning of March 5, the Ukrainian Navy unmanned boat launched an attack and sank the frigate "Sergei Kotov".
Map of the unmanned boat attack released by the Ukrainian army.
The frigate "Sergei Kotov" is a new Type 22160 warship of the Black Sea Fleet that the Russian army just entered service before the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. On January 29, 2021, it was launched at the Gulf shipyard in the city of Kerch. At that time, the launching ceremony was attended by the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, Admiral Alexander Fedodenkov, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Crimea, Sergei Aksyonov.
The Project 22160 frigate was designed by the Northern Design Bureau, with a displacement of 1,700 tons, a maximum speed of 30 knots, a range of 6,000 nautical miles, a self-sustaining power of 60 days, and a crew of 80 people. Equipped with ship-borne manned "caliber cruise missiles, 57 mm naval guns, etc. Previously, it was reported that the ship will also be equipped with BPV-500 carrier-based unmanned ***, which can perform a variety of tasks such as naval warfare, search and rescue, escort and counter-piracy.
At present, three Project 22160 frigates are in service with the 184th Marine Police Detachment, which is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, which is responsible for guarding the waters of the Novorossiysk naval base.
There is no information from the Russian side to confirm whether the frigate "Sergei Kotov" was sunk by the Ukrainian side.
However, this is the second time that Ukraine has claimed to have sunk the frigate "Sergei Kotov".
In September last year, Ukrainska Pravda reported that Ukraine's Defense Intelligence Agency said that Ukrainian forces attacked two Project 22160 missile frigates of the Black Sea Fleet, including the "Sergey Kotov". But the Russian Ministry of Defense denied the news, claiming that all 5 suicide unmanned boats sent by the Ukrainian army were destroyed by fire from the frigate.
Russia: Destroy the "third" MI tank! Russian warrior: Biden helped expand the "prize pool".
Compared with the report of the Ukrainian army's achievements, Russia's war report is even more explosive!
According to "Russia Today" (RT) and other ** reports, early on the 3rd, an M1A1 "Abrams" tank and an American-made minesweeper based on the "Abrams" tank chassis of the Ukrainian army were destroyed in the Donbass.
On the same day, RT said that a ** suspected to have been recorded by Russian soldiers appeared on the Internet. The soldier said in ** that they received a bonus for destroying tanks like the Abrams, and he also said, "Dear America, Mr. Joe Biden." As Russian fighters, we would like to express our sincerest gratitude to the United States for now providing Abrams tanks to Ukraine. As you probably know, we have a bonus for destroying such tanks. [So] we would like to ask you to send more tanks, because there are too few tanks right now, and they are not enough for all of us." ”
U.S. Secretary of Defense: If Ukraine fails, NATO will go to war with Russia.
At present, in the atmosphere of Sweden's "planned" accession, NATO is gaining momentum.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin recently talked about the Russia-Ukraine conflict when he participated in a hearing of the Armed Services Committee of the House of Representatives of the U.S. Congress. "Frankly, if Ukraine fails, I really think that NATO will go to war with Russia," he said. In this regard, Russian *** spokesperson Zakharova posted on social platforms that this is a direct threat to Russia, or is it trying to make excuses for Ukraine? "Both of these practices are absurd. ”
It is worth pointing out that the Ukrainian state news agency also reported on January 15 that the German newspaper ** quoted a confidential document drafted by the German Ministry of Defense that the German ** side has developed a detailed exercise "script" to prepare for a direct conflict between NATO and Russia after the Ukrainian army is defeated in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict. The secret document also gives a detailed description of the hypothetical actions of Russia and the West.
Many NATO military exercises have a strong "smell of gunpowder" and have listed Russia as a direct combat target.
Against this background, NATO is currently conducting military exercises in many places, and the purpose is self-evident. On January 24, NATO launched the largest military exercise since the Cold War, "Steadfast Defender 2024", which will last about four months and involve up to 90,000 people, spanning both sides of the Atlantic and extending to NATO's eastern flank. Within the framework of Steadfast Defender 2024, NATO's joint military exercise "Dragon-2024" was held in Poland from February 25.
About 20,000 soldiers and 3,500 pieces of equipment from 10 NATO member countries, including Poland, will take part in the exercise, the Polish army's General Staff said. During the exercise, the US Army's 3rd Infantry Division will approach the "Suwałki Corridor," a link between Kaliningrad, a Russian "enclave," and the Russian mainland, and conduct a live-fire exercise with the goal of regaining land and forcing the enemy to retreat.
NATO's rapid reaction force has also been deployed around the corridor since the start of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, with the aim of being able to quickly take control of the area if necessary. The Army's 3rd Infantry Division is an ace force of the U.S. military, known as the "world's No. 1 Division." Since its establishment, it has participated in many wars, including World War I, World War II, Korean War, Gulf War, Somalia War and Iraq War, and has accumulated rich combat experience.
NATO's exercise was full of "gunpowder" and assumed that Russia was a direct combat target from a training target.
It is also reported that NATO has also announced that it will hold the Nordic Response 2024 exercise in Norway, Finland and Sweden starting on March 3. More than 20,000 troops from 13 NATO allies, more than 50 submarines, frigates, aircraft carriers and various amphibious ships, as well as more than 100 fighter jets, transport planes and maritime reconnaissance aircraft participated in the exercise.
In addition, NATO's annual anti-submarine exercises, codenamed "Manta Ray", are being held in the Mediterranean. Nine NATO countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Turkey and Italy, sent submarines, frigates, maritime patrol aircraft and *** to train the ability to fight submarines from the air, surface and underwater under the command of NATO's Allied Maritime Command.
The purpose of this series of exercises is very clear, that is, it is aimed at Russia.
After accepting Finland as a member in April last year, NATO recently "expanded" again. On February 26, the Hungarian parliament approved the bill on Sweden's accession to NATO, which means that Sweden's accession to NATO is no longer in suspense. With Sweden's accession, NATO completes the final piece of the puzzle to contain Russia in the Baltic Sea, and the Baltic Sea will become a "NATO lake".
The German newspaper Die Welt published an article saying that the accession of Sweden and Finland to NATO should give Russia's Putin a headache.
However, in order to pursue ultimate security, NATO is desperately forming gangs and factions, and it is also facing backlash at any time.
NATO members must fulfill the obligation of "collective defense", that is, every member state is at war with a hostile country, and all members of NATO are automatically involved in conflict and confrontation. This is why NATO has attached to the precondition that "there shall be no territorial disputes or belligerents with other countries" for acceding countries.
Therefore, every time NATO eliminates a "buffer zone" with Russia, it means that the danger of a full-scale conflict with Russia increases by one point.
Safety is always relative, and so is danger.
NATO does not imply absolute security.
The extremely inflated NATO is itself a powder keg that will explode at any time!
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