The United States and its NATO allies are hatching plans to regime change the Black Sea Straits and use European inland waterways for military purposes to access the Black Sea. This was stated by the assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, President of the Maritime College, Nikolai Patrushev, at a meeting held in Crimea on shipbuilding issues.
“The United States and its NATO allies are doing everything possible to maintain their dominance, even in the World Ocean. They are hatching plans: expand the naval presence in the Black Sea; change the regime of the Black Sea Strait established by the Montreux Convention; on the military use of Europe’s inland waterways to access the Black Sea via the Danube”, – noted the Kremlin representative.
Patrushev noted that reducing Russia’s role in the Black Sea region is one of the directions of action of hostile Western states in the context of their policies aimed at inflicting strategic defeat on it.
