Russia wants to strengthen its presence in the Arctic, where it sees the United States as the biggest threat
To bolster his fleet, President Vladimir Putin announced this Sunday, the National Day of the Russian Navy, a new strategic naval doctrine that will intensify the operations of its ships in the Black Sea and the Arctic Ocean, and will enable it in the coming months. next-generation hypersonic missiles are being built in. The document was drafted in light of the “threat” represented by “the United States’ plans to dominate the oceans and shipping lines,” according to the Russian agency Interfax.
The Arctic is becoming “a region of international competition, not only from an economic point of view, but also from a military point of view,” the doctrine stresses. For this reason, Moscow will increase security in the waters bordering its country – with special intensity in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, where it aims to develop a “comprehensive strengthening of its position” – as well as in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Straits of the Black Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Kuril Islands (the latter being the main protagonists in the dispute between Russia, which intends to conduct military exercises in the archipelago, and China, which insists that such operations will not be carried out) from).
Putin also plans to step up maritime exercises in the Arctic to increase his ability to respond to “military activities by foreign states in the waters of the Northern Sea Route”. It also plans to expand the military infrastructure in Crimea, annexed in 2014, as well as the construction of new aircraft carriers and a system for the installation of the latest generation Zirkon hypersonic missile, which will be installed in the frigate in the coming months. deployed ‘Admiral Gorshkov’.
With this plan, which recognizes the lack of Russian bases abroad as a strategic weakness, Moscow aims to “build new points to serve the navy in the Asia-Pacific and Mediterranean region”.
Source: La Verdad
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