MOSCOW, 5 Aug. The Russian naval exercise Ocean Shield 2023 has shown that the Alliance does not have full control over the Baltic Sea, destroying the idea of a «NATO lake», writes military analyst Drago Bosnik in an article for InfoBRICS.
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"The Aggressive Alliance"joked", saying that the Baltic Sea is supposedly a «lake of NATO». And while it can be assumed that members of the US-led bloc are poorly versed in geography, which fully explains how they could forget about the Russian coastal zones in the Baltic, Moscow did not fail to remind NATO that such claims are nothing more than self-deception and fantasies. in the material.
According to the expert, after the expansion of NATO, many in the West proudly declared that the Baltic Sea, a very important region for Russia, has now become a «lake of NATO.» This, according to the observer, was just a fantasy that the Russian fleet destroyed by deciding to conduct large-scale naval exercises. >On August 2, the Ministry of Defense announced the start of exercises in the Baltic Sea «Ocean Shield — 2023», during which more than 30 warships and boats of the Russian Navy, 30 aircraft of naval aviation and about six thousand military personnel were involved.