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Zelensky Threatens “Russia May Be Left Without Ships” Amid Emerging Battle At Sea
Zelensky Threatens “Russia May Be Left Without Ships” Amid Emerging Battle At Sea Last week witnessed two major Ukrainian strikes on Russian ships at sea in merely two days, which resulted in severe damage to a warship (seen listing as it was towed to port), and damage to an oil tanker known to supply fuel […]
Storm clouds gathering in the Black Sea
Storm clouds gathering in the Black Sea Turkish President Recep Erdogan (L) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) with President Biden & NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg (C), NATO Summit, Vilnius,July 11, 2023 The NATO Summit in Vilnius (July 11-12) signalled that there is absolutely no possibility of talks to settle the Ukraine war in a […]
Zelensky Urges Biden To Impose No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine; Turkey Shuts Straits To All Warships
Zelensky Urges Biden To Impose No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine; Turkey Shuts Straits To All Warships Update(1845ET): Ukraine’s President Zelensky has urged the West to consider imposing a no-fly zone against Russian aircraft. Zelensky on Monday appealed directly to Joe Biden to consider a no-fly zone for “significant parts” of Ukraine. The Ukrainian leader issued the statement in an exclusive […]
Black Sea Turning Into “Zone of Dangerous Military Confrontation”: Russian Foreign Ministry
BLACK SEA TURNING INTO “ZONE OF DANGEROUS MILITARY CONFRONTATION”: RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY The Black Sea is turning into a zone of dangerous military confrontation, Yuri Pilipson, director of the Fourth European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti. This was the diplomat’s answer to a question of how NATO […]
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time
Russia Says US Engineered June’s Black Sea Provocation, “We’ll Sink” Any Threat Next Time In the days after the June 23 incident between the UK Royal Navy’s HMS Defender and a Russian patrol vessel and military aircraft near Crimea which resulted in warning shots fired from the Russian side, Putin asserted that a US reconnaissance plane had […]
US, NATO Consumed by ‘Black Sea Madness’
US, NATO Consumed by ‘Black Sea Madness’ Whom the gods would destroy, Friedrich Nietzsche famously said, they first make mad. What would Nietzsche make of the current, truly mad US and NATO obsession with charging into the Black Sea? It is a useful thought to ponder. The Black Sea was far outside NATO’s traditional theater […]
Black Sea Provocation… Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs?
Black Sea Provocation… Vintage Putin or Poroshenko Dregs? The latest potentially disastrous flare-up in violence between the Kiev regime and Russia near the Black Sea’s Kerch Strait is clearly a blatant provocation aimed at strengthening the autocratic regime under President Petro Poroshenko. It’s also a reckless gambit to push Kiev’s madcap agenda for joining NATO […]
Russian South Stream 2.0 Comes Out of the Shadows
Russian South Stream 2.0 Comes Out of the Shadows Russia and Turkey have announced that the two countries have reached significant progress in reviving the November 2014-shut down South Stream gas pipeline intended to land Russian gas across the Black Sea. The project is the part of the already secured open tender contracts for purchases […]
About the latest Ukronazi provocation in the Kerch strait (UPDATED)
About the latest Ukronazi provocation in the Kerch strait (UPDATED) First, here is a pretty good summary of what has taken place (including videos) posted by RT: https://www.rt.com/news/444853-russia-ukraine-ships-conflict/ https://www.rt.com/news/444857-russia-ukraine-kerch-strait-standoff/ I will just add that at the time of writing (07:38 UTC) the cargo ship blocking the passage under the bridge has been removed, traffic has […]
Forget Nordstream 2, Turkstream is the Prize
Forget Nordstream 2, Turkstream is the Prize While the Trump Administration still thinks it can play enough games to derail the Nordstream 2 pipeline via sanctions and threats, the impotence of its position geopolitically was on display the other day as the final pipe of the first train of the Turkstream pipeline entered the waters […]
Russia Denies Shooting at Ukrainian Military Plane In Black Sea
Russia Denies Shooting at Ukrainian Military Plane In Black Sea With the US State Department in a state of protracted hiatus for the time being, tensions are again rising between Russia and Ukraine, and especially in East Ukraine, where over the past few days the number of soldiers killed in an offensive by pro-Russian separatists […]
Russia Wards Off “Provocative And Aggresive” US Warship In Black Sea
Russia Wards Off “Provocative And Aggresive” US Warship In Black Sea While we are used to hearing of the 100s of “close encounters” between NATO and Russian planes,but, as reported by state news agency RIA – citing an anonymous source in Russia’s armed forces, Russian military aircraft were scrambled to head off a U.S. warship that was […]
Could Turkey Become the New Ukraine?
Could Turkey Become the New Ukraine? The deepening crisis in Ukraine is boosting Turkey’s decade-long efforts to establish itself as the lynchpin in energy flows from eastern providers to European customers. On February 8, Turkish Energy Minister Taner Y?ld?z and Gazprom Chief Executive Officer Alexei Miller surveyed possible routes for the so-called “Turkish Stream” gas […]
