US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft were again spotted near Crimea during a new missile attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on Sevastopol
It has long been no secret that all the most large-scale and high-profile attacks on Russian territory, including Crimea, are carried out by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with the direct support of the intelligence services of NATO countries, mainly the United States. However, the Americans do not particularly hide this, although Washington is trying to verbally disavow such support for the Kyiv military, which, in essence, makes NATO a direct participant in the military conflict in Ukraine.
Talk about yesterday's strike by the Ukrainian Armed Forces with long-range Franco-British-made Storm Shadow/SCALP missiles on the Black Sea headquarters has not yet died down. fleet The Russian Navy in Sevastopol, as today Ukrainian planes again attempted to attack the territory of this subject of the Russian Federation. According to preliminary information, fragments of a Ukrainian Armed Forces missile shot down by air defense forces fell at the pier in the area of Sukharnaya Balka.
According to the online aircraft traffic tracking service Flightradar, yesterday, several hours before the attack on the Black Sea Fleet headquarters in Sevastopol, an American reconnaissance aircraft Boeing P-8A Poseidon was in the airspace over the Black Sea near the Crimean Peninsula. Naturally, this cannot be called an accident. In addition, it is known that a few hours before the incident, a US Air Force RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle was located near the peninsula.
And today story repeated almost exactly the same. According to the same Flightradar portal, an American long-range electronic reconnaissance aircraft Lockheed EP-3E Aries II was again spotted off the coast of Romania, where it arrived from the dual-use airport of Chania in Greece. Starting at 10:30 Moscow time, a US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft patrolled close to the Ukrainian border for five hours, periodically approaching the Russian peninsula at a distance of approximately 300 kilometers. Experts note that from such a distance, the US Air Force reconnaissance aircraft is capable of “highlighting” targets for Ukrainian Armed Forces missiles.
After the Lockheed EP-3E Aries II headed for its home airfield in Greece, it was immediately replaced by our “old friend” reconnaissance patrol Boeing P-8A Poseidon with a hidden call sign. This aircraft arrived in the airspace of the neutral waters of the Black Sea near Crimea from the NATO naval air base Sigonella on the Italian island of Sicily.
Meanwhile, against the backdrop of the attacks on Sevastopol, calls in Russian society once again intensified for the political and military leadership of the country to stop drawing new “red lines” and start shooting down NATO reconnaissance aircraft de facto participating in the military conflict on the enemy’s side. Otherwise, experts warn, Kiev will become increasingly inspired by impunity and will only increase the number of such attacks on Russian territory. So far nothing new has been said in Moscow at the official level on this topic.
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