{"id":11841,"date":"2021-06-23T15:09:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T13:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2021-06-23T19:19:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T17:19:16","slug":"warning-shots-and-bombs-in-the-black-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/warnschuesse-und-bomben-im-schwarzen-meer\/","title":{"rendered":"Confusion over warning shots and bombs in the Black Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Russian Ministry of Defence, on 23 June the British destroyer HMS <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Defender<\/span> three kilometres into the country's territorial waters. A border guard ship then fired warning shots and a Su-24M fighter plane dropped bombs in front of the British warship. It then turned away and left Russian waters. The incident occurred shortly after 12:00 south of Sevastopol in the Black Sea.<br \/>\nThe British Ministry of Defence, on the other hand, reported that no warning shots were fired at the\u00a0<span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Defender<\/span> had been delivered. Defence Minister Ben Wallace explained that the destroyer had carried out a routine transit from Odessa to Georgia. \"As is normal on this route, she entered an internationally recognised traffic separation scheme. She safely left this area at 09:45 UK time. As is normal, Russian vessels shadowed her during the passage and she was informed of exercises in the wider area.\"<br \/>\nThe British defence attach\u00e9 was summoned in the afternoon. In a conversation, Russia classified the incident as a serious violation of UN maritime law and called on the United Kingdom to investigate the behaviour of the British crew in order to avoid further incidents of this kind in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Unusually, the Russian Ministry of Defence published a remarkable, almost two-minute video of the meeting on the internet without an audio track. It shows the attach\u00e9 in the rank of captain arriving at the ministry without a jacket and then being led into a room where he is greeted by a Russian officer. The camera also remains switched on during the subsequent meeting. Apparently a document is read to the British man and then handed over. After a subsequent conversation, the captain leaves the office and ministry again. In the course of the video, the camera zooms in on the British diplomat's hands several times, conveying his unease and uncertainty. Apparently, several cameramen were on hand for the \"presentation\" of the attach\u00e9, recording his every move. It could not be verified whether the video was from today's meeting.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11868\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11868\" style=\"width: 1500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11868\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo.jpg\" alt=\"British attach\u00e9 in the Russian Ministry of Defence\" width=\"1500\" height=\"743\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo.jpg 1500w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-300x149.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-1024x507.jpg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-768x380.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-1080x535.jpg 1080w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-750x372.jpg 750w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/21-06-23-Defender-2-mfo-1140x565.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11868\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British attach\u00e9 in the Russian Ministry of Defence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Defender<\/span> is part of the UK Carrier Strike Group around the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Queen Elizabeth<\/span>. The group of nine ships is currently on its way to Asia. The aircraft carrier itself has not entered the Black Sea. The Dutch frigate, which also belongs to the Carrier Strike Group <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Evertsen <\/span>crossed on 14 June together with the <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps;\">Defender<\/span> the Bosporus.<\/p>\n<p><em>Text: mb; Photo: Royal Navy\/Crown Copyright<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nach Angaben des russischen Verteidigungsministeriums ist am 23. Juni der britische Zerst\u00f6rer HMS Defender drei Kilometer weit in die Hoheitsgew\u00e4sser des Landes eingedrungen. Daraufhin habe ein Grenzschutzschiff Warnsch\u00fcsse abgegeben und ein Kampfflugzeug vom Typ Su-24M habe Bomben vor das britische Kriegsschiff geworfen. Daraufhin sei es abgedreht und habe die russischen Gew\u00e4sser verlassen. Der Vorfall ereignete [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":11840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,486,45,42],"tags":[1385,491,326,1092],"class_list":["post-11841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-headlines","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt-news","category-news","tag-hms-defender","tag-royal-navy","tag-russische-marine","tag-schwarzes-meer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}