The Russian military has reported a major escalation in NATO drilling and reconnaissance activity in the Black Sea. Last month, the Royal Navy tried to test the security of Russia’s maritime borders around Crimea by deploying a destroyer in Russian waters. The incident sparked a major diplomatic scandal between Moscow and London.
Outside powers are artificially inflating tensions in the Black Sea, and Moscow will be closely monitoring the implementation of the Montreux Convention regulating the transit of warships into and out of the body of water, the Russian Foreign Ministry has announced.
“Against a background of the artificial ratcheting up the situation in the Black Sea by certain non-regional players, we consider the task of ensuring the strict implementations of the provision of the Montreaux Convention very urgent,” a ministry spokesperson told Sputnik.
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