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| Russian Ministry of Defense remarks on USAF E-8C overflight in the Black Sea |
| 2021-11-11 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Facebook] "The Russian Armed Forces continue to continuously monitor and track the situation in the Black Sea region. On November 9, in the period from 1415 hrs to 1928 hrs, a ground-based reconnaissance and strike control aircraft E-8C of the US Air Force was discovered over the Black Sea. Throughout the entire flight over the Black Sea, the US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft was tracked by radar equipment of the anti-aircraft missile forces of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The American E-8C aircraft, which took off from the Ramshtein airbase (Germany), for 5 hours and 13 minutes loitered in the air at echelons of 7-10 thousand meters over the north-western, central and north-eastern part of the Black Sea. The minimum approach to the state border of the Russian Federation was 35 km. USS Porter, USS Porter, USS John Lenthall and USS Mount Whitney, are currently stationed in the Black Sea region to participate in a US-Europe multinational exercise. We are talking about the unscheduled actions of the US forces, which are creating a multinational grouping of armed forces in the immediate vicinity of the Russian border. Such actions are a destabilizing factor in the Black Sea region, one of the goals of which is the military development of the territory of Ukraine. Taking into account the fact that in addition to the US Navy, it is planned to use tactical, patrol and strategic aviation, as well as contingents of the armed forces of Bulgaria, Georgia, Romania, Turkey and Ukraine, there is a study of the alleged theater of military operations in the event that Kiev prepares a military solution in the southeast." |
| Posted by:badanov |