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Conducting exercises in the Azov and Black Seas, Russia is implementing the tactics of “creeping occupation” off the coast of Ukraine, wrote in Facebook Defense Minister Alexei Reznikov.
“Overlapping the waters of the Azov and Black Seas“ for exercises ”is a tactic of creeping occupation of the sea, which they have been using for a long time. If there is no general reaction of the world to these pressure attempts, then the Kremlin and not only the Kremlin can use such tactics all over the world, ”Reznikov warned.
He called on Western partners to respond to such a policy of Moscow so that Russian ships could not “calmly enter civilized ports.” Then, according to Reznikov, in Russia “they will understand the price of their impudence.”
In addition to actions at sea, the minister pointed out, Russia continues the “active militarization” of Crimea and uses it “as a training ground.” On the territory of the peninsula, Kiev observes the accumulation of weapons and the movement of military units, the minister added.
The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine did not see Russian strike groups on the border
