DDJAWI - Armada
Laut Hitam Rusia telah menjalankan ujian yg berjaya sistem Bastion
pertahanan pantai generasi baru, sebagai sebahagian daripada latihan tentera laut Moscow
berkata telah pra-berjadual dan tidak ditetapkan masanya bertepatan dengan
latihan NATO semasa di lembangan itu.
Kementerian
Pertahanan berkata, 15 kapal, lebih daripada 10 kapal terbang dan helikopter,
dan senjata api pantai mengambil bahagian dalam latihan dijadualkan daripada
Sevastopol pada Selasa. Di tengah-tengah ini adalah demonstrasi selepas Soviet
Bastion - panggilan NATO menandatangani SSC-5 "Badut" - kompleks anti-kapal
peluru berpandu.
"Amalan
sasaran dalam julat menembak ke selatan-timur Sevastopol dilakukan oleh
kompleks Bastion canggih. Sasaran, yang melambangkan satu skuadron tentera laut,
telah juga diserang oleh empat Su-24 jet. Semua peluru berpandu terkena
sasaran, yang telah musnah, "kata satu kenyataan daripada Kementerian
Pertahanan.
Walaupun
Moscow menegaskan bahawa format latihan telah dirancang terlebih dahulu, mereka
datang sehari selepas kejadian kontroversi yang ratcheted sehingga ketegangan
di Laut Hitam, yang bersempadan dengan Crimea dan Ukraine di utara.
Pada
hari Isnin, NATO menuduh 3 jet Rusia drone - terbang rapat atas kepala - kapal
Kanada mengambil bahagian dalam latihan sendiri. Menteri Pertahanan Kanada Rob
Nicholson berkata manuver itu "tidak perlu provokatif."
Moscow
menafikan sengaja memburukkan anggota NATO, berkata jet tidak mendekati dan
menegaskan bahawa kehadiran mereka di kawasan itu "selaras dengan peraturan-peraturan
antarabangsa."
3 hari
"latihan jaminan" sedang dijalankan bersama oleh NATO dan Kiev dan
telah melibatkan 4 kapal-kapal, walaupun tiada seorang pun daripada ianya
memasuki pelabuhan Ukraine. Nicholson mendakwa latihan berjadual adalah
"hasil langsung daripada pencerobohan tentera rejim Putin dan pencerobohan
Ukraine."
NATO
juga menjalankan latihan di Baltik, dan merancang untuk mengadakan latihan darat
di Ukraine sebelum akhir thn ini. Kerjasama itu juga mengumum-kan penubuhan
sebuah pasukan Eropah timur baru selepas satu sidang kemuncak di Wales minggu
lepas.
Moscow
telah memberi respons negatif terhadap semua inisiatif NATO menuduhnya
ketidakstabilan keadaan rapuh di Ukraine, dan membuka jalan bagi perkembangan
ke arah timur blok ini.
Utusan
NATO Rusia, Aleksandr Grushko berkata NATO menggunakan krisis di Ukraine
sebagai alasan untuk meningkatkan kehadiran tentera berhampiran sempadan Rusia,
menggambarkan peranan persekutuan itu bercanggah Ukraine sebagai "amat
merosakkan."
RUSSIAN
Coastal defenses in Crimea STAGE target
practice Amid NATO drills in Black SEA
The
Russian Black Sea fleet has carried out a successful test of its new-generation
Bastion coastal defense system, as part of naval exercises Moscow says were
pre-scheduled and not timed to coincide with the current NATO drills in the
basin.
The
Defense Ministry said that 15 ships, over 10 planes and helicopters, and
coastal guns took part in scheduled drills out of Sevastopol on Tuesday. The
centerpiece was a demonstration of the post-Soviet Bastion – NATO call sign
SSC-5 “Stooge” – anti-ship cruise missile complex.
“The
target practice in the firing range to the south-east of Sevastopol was carried
out by the cutting-edge Bastion complex. The targets, which symbolized a navy
squadron, were also attacked by four Su-24 jets. All missiles hit targets,
which were destroyed,” said a statement from the Defense Ministry.
While
Moscow insists that the format of the exercises had been planned in advance,
they come one day after a controversial incident that ratcheted up tensions in
the Black Sea, which is bordered by Crimea and Ukraine in the north.
On
Monday, NATO accused three Russian jets of buzzing – flying closely overhead –
a Canadian ship taking part in its own exercises. Canada’s Defense Minister Rob
Nicholson said the maneuver was “unnecessarily provocative.”
Moscow
denied purposely aggravating NATO personnel, saying the jets did not approach and asserting that
their presence in the vicinity was “in
line with international regulations.”
The
three day “reassurance exercises” are
being conducted jointly by NATO and Kiev and have involved four ships, though
none of them entered a Ukrainian port. Nicholson claimed the unscheduled drills
are the “direct result of the Putin
regime's military aggression and invasion of Ukraine.”
NATO is
also conducting exercises in the Baltic, and plans to stage land drills in
Ukraine before the end of the year. The alliance also announced the creation of
a new eastern European force after a summit in Wales last week.
Moscow
has responded negatively to all NATO initiatives, accusing it of destabilizing
the fragile situation in Ukraine, and paving the way for bloc’s eastward
expansion. Russia’s NATO envoy, Aleksandr Grushko, said that NATO used the
crisis in Ukraine as a pretext to step up its military presence near Russian
borders, describing the alliance’s role in the Ukrainian conflict as “extremely destructive.”
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