{"id":41023,"date":"2018-11-28T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41023"},"modified":"2018-11-28T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T13:40:14","slug":"russia-deploys-s-400-missiles-to-crimea-in-military-showdown-with-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=41023","title":{"rendered":"Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles To Crimea In Military Showdown With Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-28\/russia-deploys-s-400-missiles-crimea-military-showdown-ukraine\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles To Crimea In Military Showdown With Ukraine<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\" data-gtm-vis-recent-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1064\" data-gtm-vis-first-on-screen-2077925_22=\"1064\" data-gtm-vis-total-visible-time-2077925_22=\"100\" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-2077925_22=\"1\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\">\n<div class=\"submission-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>Predictably the crisis that began on Sunday between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait is quickly worsening as Russia has announced\u00a0<strong>plans to deploy more\u00a0of its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Crimea<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to tensions,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ukraine-crisis-russia\/russia-to-deploy-new-missiles-to-crimea-as-ukraine-tensions-rise-idUSKCN1NX0WZ\">Reuters<\/a>\u00a0has further reported that\u00a0<strong>a Russian warship has been dispatched to the\u00a0Sea of Azov<\/strong>\u00a0<em>\u2014\u00a0<\/em>waters\u00a0used by both countries and near where the Russian Navy seized Ukrainian vessels and crew for what Moscow condemned as &#8220;maneuvering dangerously&#8221; and illegal entry into Russian territory.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Crimea%20S-400.jpg?itok=D7GAoKiP\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Crimea%20S-400.jpg?itok=D7GAoKiP\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/Crimea%20S-400.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/Crimea%20S-400.jpg?itok=D7GAoKiP 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"321\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"25b9a428-742c-45a5-8647-1fa823cd750a\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><figcaption><em>S-400 anti-missile defense system, via TASS<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The warship was seen departing a Crimean port by a\u00a0Reuters correspondent\u00a0on Wednesday and was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ukraine-crisis-russia\/russia-to-deploy-new-missiles-to-crimea-as-ukraine-tensions-rise-idUSKCN1NX0WZ\">described<\/a>\u00a0as the Russian navy minesweeper ship, the Vice-Admiral Zakharin, going in the direction of the\u00a0Sea of Azov.<\/p>\n<p>This comes a day after Ukraine&#8217;s President Petro Poroshenko issued provocative statements during a televised\u00a0interview on Tuesday that\u00a0his country is\u00a0<strong>&#8220;under threat of full-scale war with Russia&#8221; while seeking to justify martial law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The Ukrainian president added that &#8220;the number of units that have been deployed along our border \u2013 what&#8217;s more, along its full length \u2013\u00a0<strong>has grown dramatically<\/strong>.&#8221; He referenced unspecified\u00a0intelligence reports pointing\u00a0to Moscow tripling its forces along the border since Crimea joined Russia in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/crimea.jpg?itok=g8yMHz6r\" data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/crimea.jpg?itok=g8yMHz6r\" data-link-option=\"0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/crimea.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/inline_image_desktop\/public\/inline-images\/crimea.jpg?itok=g8yMHz6r 1x\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"385\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"544da088-8c24-4af3-87b5-78bec1be01bf\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though\u00a0likely the plans were already in motion, the timing of the S-400 deployment announcement is\u00a0<strong>designed to send a strong message to\u00a0the West<\/strong>, which is also building up its forces as both the UK and US are reportedly injecting\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cato.org\/publications\/commentary\/washington-quietly-increases-lethal-weapons-ukraine\">more military hardware<\/a>\u00a0and troops\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-11-27\/military-officials-angered-over-uk-dispatch-survey-ship-black-sea-call-destroyer\">into Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tass.com\/defense\/1033040\">TASS<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A division set of Russia\u2019s S-400 Triumph air defense system has undergone tests and will<strong>\u00a0soon be put on combat duty in Crimea<\/strong>, the Southern Military District\u2019s press service said on Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Deploys S-400 Missiles To Crimea In Military Showdown With Ukraine Predictably the crisis that began on Sunday between Russia and Ukraine in the Kerch Strait is quickly worsening as Russia has announced\u00a0plans to deploy more\u00a0of its advanced S-400 surface-to-air missile systems to Crimea. Adding to tensions,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0has further reported that\u00a0a Russian warship has been dispatched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[179,23216,694,23248,821,4318],"class_list":["post-41023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-crimea","tag-kerch-strait","tag-russia","tag-s-400-missiles","tag-ukraine","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41024,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41023\/revisions\/41024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}