Moscow, Russia.
More than twenty Warships and fifty Russian planes participated today in maneuvers naval into the Black Sea, the scene of a few weeks of an escalation of tension between Russia and the neighbor Ukraine.
According to a statement issued by Black Sea Fleet, participated in exercises Su-25SM3 fighters and the forces of the air defense system in the southern military district.
Fleet of Black Sea noted that in the regular maneuvers to which they were transferred Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, in total 50 planes.
ships and aircraft participants in the exercises performed practice “in order to repulses an attack of virtual enemy by active radio interference “.
All this “at heights extremely low and in weather conditions adverse, “he added.
According to official information, Russia limited between 20 and 24 April flights about part of Crimea and the Black Sea and declared this area “dangerous for air navigation “.
More, Moscow announced that it will limit from April 24 to October 31 sailing on Warships foreigners in the Russian territorial waters of Black Sea.
The Foreign Ministry stated that this measure refers only to Warships and will not affect commercial navy through the Kerch Strait.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov stressed that these types of restrictions in the areas where they take place naval maneuvers “It’s a common international practice.”
“We adhere strictly to multilateral agreements and to any other agreement signed by Russia”, he stated.
NATO considered last Friday “unjustified” the intention of Russia to close various sectors of the Black Sea to carry out military maneuvers, which he sees as part of a “broader model of destabilizing behavior” in the region.
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Ukraine has accused Moscow provokesr one escalation of tension in the area, especially in the Donbas, due to the dangerous increase in its presence in recent weeks military on frontera between the two countries.
Kiev estimates, according to the press office of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, that there are some 80,000 Russian soldiers on border with Ukraine and in the Crimea.
The West has called on Russia to withdraw these forces from the border Ukraine fearing that the escalation would lead to open conflict in the Donbas. EFE