Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu expressed the point of view that the warships of the United States and other non-Black Sea countries are trying to check how Russia is building the defense of its southern borders. So the head of the Ministry of Defense commented on the entry into the Black Sea of the American destroyer Porter and the flagship of the Sixth Fleet Mount Whitney.
Shoigu added that when ships, clearly not going on a tourist trip, enter the Black Sea, the Russian military accompanies them, watches them and proceeds from the assumption that “any provocations are possible at any moment.”
On the air of the Russia-1 TV channel in the Moscow. Kremlin. Putin program, the head of the Russian military department recalled that Western countries would conduct a series of exercises with the Georgian and Ukrainian fleets. “Well, we are also conducting exercises and will be conducting them,” he added.
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