British Defense classified documents, also containing details of the mission of the Hms Defender ship, were found at a bus stop. To report it is the Bbc, which explains how, after an official reported his disappearance last week, they were found behind a stop in Kent by a citizen who wanted to remain anonymous and contacted the Bbc.
Black Sea Frontier, the last theater of confrontation between Russia and NATO
by Rosalba Castelletti
The 50 pages discuss, among other things, Moscow’s likely aggressive reaction to the HMS Defender’s voyage into the waters off the Crimea, a region annexed by Moscow in 2014. As the ship passed, Russia would have actually fired warning shots, the dynamics are not clear but there was still tension. The documents show that London, with the passage close to Crimea, had calculated the risk of a provocation towards Moscow, and that it chose to proceed in any case to show support for Ukraine, from which Russia has stolen the region.
Crimea, war trials. London challenges Moscow. And the Russians fire in the Black Sea
by our correspondent Antonello Guerrera
But there is also more in the cards, such as the possible military presence of the United Kingdom in Afghanistan after the withdrawal of the Americans, observations on arms exports, on competition with the EU, on the continuity between Trump and Biden in areas such as China and Indo-Pacific. The Ministry of Defense, embarrassed, has opened an investigation.
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