Russia Revises Navy Doctrine

2015/7/28 0:26:29

The new doctrine would appear to assure the further militarization of Russian-occupied Crimea and a substantial expansion of ships based at Sevastopol.

 

<Photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a July 26 ceremony marking Navy Day in Baltiysk, Russia.


 


By Agence France-Presse as published in Defense News, July 26, 2015

 

MOSCOW — Russia aims to boost the strategic positions of its navy on the Black Sea and seek to maintain an Atlantic and Mediterranean presence, according its latest naval doctrine which has been revised over NATO's inadmissible expansion.

 

Published Sunday on the Kremlin website, an updated version of the Russian Navy's doctrine came half a year after a revised military doctrine that dramatically reflected deteriorating relations with the West.

 

NATO was already seen a major threat in an earlier version of the doctrine published in 2010, but the war in Ukraine has further raised tensions to levels not seen since the Cold War.

 

The new navy document underlines the “inadmissible” character of the Alliance's plans to move military infrastructures towards its borders.

 

The Russian text sets targets of developing infrastructures for its fleet at the Black Sea in Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed in 2014 by Russia.

 

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