Russia conducts military exercises off Norway and Italy
Anyone who thinks that Russia responds to NATO by accumulating troops on Ukrainian borders has a somewhat weak view of Russian strategy and the military capabilities of modern states.
Russia is holding, or has just held, large naval military exercises in front of two NATO states: Norway and Italy.
The Russian Northern Fleet conducted anti-submarine drills in the Norwegian Sea, not far from NATO member Norway, at a time of larger and rival naval movements in places like the Black Sea. According to TASS news agency, the Russian Armed Forces described the northern exercises as a simulation in which Russian ships "chased a fictional enemy submarine using sonar and military pilot data."
"As part of the exercises with the Arctic Expeditionary Task Force, a group of combat and support ships from the Northern Fleet exercised anti-submarine assignments in the Norwegian Sea," the defense ministry described.
"The crews of the missile cruiser Marshal Ustinov and the frigate Fleet Admiral Kasatonov chased the simulated enemy submarines with the help of an anti-submarine war helicopter," the military press office added.
Here is the affected area, very large
In the meantime, the Mediterranean fleet held exercises off the coast of Italy, without ever violating our territorial waters, just as exercises involving US and German ships were held.
In the meantime the Navy remained, as in the Second World War, a "Navy in power", that is, in the ports….
At a time when the West is closely monitoring Russian military movements related to the construction of the border with Ukraine, TASS writes that these exercises: “Overall, the radical exercises will bring together over 140 warships and support ships, plus of 60 aircraft, 1,000 items of military equipment and about 10,000 men ”. Meanwhile the newspapers look at the Russian soldiers with binoculars.
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