Russian warship fires warning shots at British Navy

Reports coming out that a Russian Navy vessel has fired warning shots at the British Navy as they attempted to enter the Black Sea and didnt respond to radio contact. They then dropped bombs into the water in the path of the British ship.

At 12:06 and 12:08 the border patrol ship opened warning fire. After another nine minutes, the Su-24m performed warning bombing, dropping four OFAB-250s in the direction of the destroyer

ria.ru...

The Black Sea Fleet, together with border guards, stopped the violation of the Russian border by the British destroyer Defender at Cape Fiolent, the Defense Ministry

Can't remember this happening very often.. there's also a US Navy vessel in the area.

Twitter:

Breaking: 4 bombs were dropped in the path of a British navy ship by Russian Su-24 warplanes in the Black Sea.

Russia has summoned British diplomats to talk.

www.bloomberg.com...

A Su-24 aircraft dropped four bombs in waters near the Royal Navy destroyer H.M.S. Defender and a border patrol ship fired its gun to divert it after the British vessel entered Russia’s territorial waters off Crimea and refused to heed radio warnings, the ministry said, according to the Interfax news service.

Russia alleged the ship was 3 kilometers (2 miles) into its waters when the incident occurred and reversed course after the firing

maybe just a training exercise ?

a reply to: Agit8dChop

It's also being reported 'Russia's defense ministry has announced it sunk an aircraft carrier just 35 miles off the coast of Hawaii'.

Russian fleet 35 miles off Hawaii practices sinking an AIRCRAFT CARRIER as US Navy strike group moves into the area and F-22 stealth fighters in Pearl Harbor are placed on standby.

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a reply to: Agit8dChop

This makes no sense, the entrance to the Black Sea is off the coast of Turkey and the seaway is international waters.

a reply to: Agit8dChop

hmmm, coincidence (not) that the US just so happens to be testing 40,000 pound bomb effectiveness on their AC carriers.

Nothing to see here - move along.

Do you get the feeling TPTB know something is about to happen that we don't?

a reply to: AngryCymraeg

The article mentioned Cape Fiolent which is in the Crimea. I think they mean the warship was attempting to enter the Sea of Azov, not the Black Sea.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Aha, that makes much more sense.

originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
Aha, that makes much more sense.

Don't get used to it, I'm not a make sense kind of person, I just happen to be good with geography.

originally posted by: AngryCymraeg
a reply to: Agit8dChop

This makes no sense, the entrance to the Black Sea is off the coast of Turkey and the seaway is international waters.

Well they have been a bit sensitive about the Black Sea recently.

Russia’s Illegal Restriction of Navigation in the Black Sea

Russia recently announced that it was closing off portions of the Black Sea off the Crimean Peninsula and near the Kerch Strait to foreign warships and other state vessels from April 24 to Oct. 31.

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Hmmmm, what goes on here then, the Russians feel free to regularly violate OUR airspace and even our waters with there sub's and we usually in a far more friendly manner escort them out again.

But one of ship's does the same and they have a bloody tantrum, not to mention that instead of simply summoning our ambassador and bringing there own vessel beside it to lead it out of there waters assuming it was even there waters to begin with and not a case of them playing China's game, they expended ordnance which of course there tax payers will have to pay for, not that they have a shortage what with all those stock piles of cold war shell's and bomb's but?.

Loons, I know the old Russkies like to play strong man but this time they have gone a bit too far, oh how they have forgotten all those BRITISH seamen that gave there lives to deliver supplies all while we had not enough for ourselves via the north Atlantic AND without which despite there claim they saved the world in the so called great patriotic war they would have definitely LOST it.

a reply to: AngryCymraeg

More sense indeed.
How would we react if Russia sailed a ship or two up the Channel

a reply to: Agit8dChop

The British should keep their ships 6 ft apart from the other ships.
If everyone else has to do it so do they.

originally posted by: Cymru
More sense indeed.
How would we react if Russia sailed a ship or two up the Channel

I heard Pooty-Poot is intending on parking a Borei off the London Eye.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus
No great loss, its England
/SARCASM

a reply to: LABTECH767

Your Western tainted perspective is hilarious.

The US builds military bases all around Russian borders, actively funds Nazis in the Ukraine in order to stir up anti-Russian dissent and the US puppy dog UK government constantly hype the Russian threat in order to justify their military spending, that is what's truly insane and you talk about the tax payers when the UK and US tax payer is constantly conned into believing the crap of the red boogeyman

And I should remind, had the Russians failed on the Eastern front, there's a good chance we'd all be a bunch of racist Germans right now

JUN 15

Putin’s Ukraine War: Will Russia attempt a Black Sea blockade?

For much of April 2021, international attention was focused on an unprecedented buildup of Russian forces on the Ukrainian border. Was Vladimir Putin about to launch a major escalation in his seven-year war against Ukraine?

With attention focused firmly on the more than 2000 km land border separating Russia and Ukraine, relatively few observers appeared to notice the buildup of Russian naval forces in the Black Sea region that also took place during spring 2021. Indeed, Moscow’s decision to effectively close the Azov Sea to non-Russian military and state-owned vessels provoked little comment, despite the grave implications for Ukrainian shipping passing to and from the country’s formerly bustling Azov Sea ports. Without any fuss or fanfare, the Azov Sea had become a Russian lake.
The success of Russia’s Azov Sea gambit now sets the stage for a potentially game-changing maritime escalation further along Ukraine’s southern coastline. Given the lack of international reaction to the slow-motion annexation of the Azov Sea, many in Kyiv now fear that Moscow will soon seek to expand this maritime blockade and cut Ukraine off completely from the Black Sea.

a reply to: AugustusMasonicus

Well if he serves good Borscht and Vodka the Cockney's will love it, assuming we still have Cockney's since we are now a minority in our own capital and anyway the Russian Oligarch's own a surprising amount of London's most exclusive real estate.

a reply to: LABTECH767

Caviar or Jellied Eels??

Anyhoo, some meat on the bones from that paragon of factual reporting, Auntie Beeb.

www.bbc.co.uk...

originally posted by: Cymru
a reply to: LABTECH767

Caviar or Jellied Eels??

Anyhoo, some meat on the bones from that paragon of factual reporting, Auntie Beeb.

www.bbc.co.uk...

Boris the clown trying to show uncle Joe that his puny country can still hold their own, pathetic

a reply to: Zcustosmorum

Clown or a paedo?
I'd vote for the Circus act every day of the week
/more sarcasm