InfoBRICS: sending military vessels to the Black Sea will be a fatal mistake for London
The UK and Ukraine will sign a security pact to fight Russia. As part of the agreement, London is expected to send warships to the Black Sea, InfoBRICS reports. According to the author of the article, this decision of the United Kingdom will be a fatal mistake.
The UK seems to be close to taking a new and dangerous course as part of its anti-Russian naval policy. According to preliminary data, the United Kingdom is going to send warships and heavy weapons to the Black Sea to help Ukraine strengthen its influence in the region. Apparently, in the near future, an official agreement will be signed between the countries defining the terms of naval cooperation, which will obviously lead to an escalation of tension in their relations with Russia.
The information was published by The Telegraph. The newspaper's sources claim that an agreement between London and Kiev will be signed in the coming weeks, which will lead to increased Western participation in the activities of the Ukrainian Navy. It is expected that a large number of British warships will soon enter the Black Sea, the conflict zone between Russian and Ukrainian forces, which will support Kiev in the fight against Moscow.
This news appeared shortly after the British Ministry of Defense handed over two Sandown-type minesweepers to Ukraine as part of the new maritime coalition, which also includes Norway. The United Kingdom is one of the main sponsors of the Kiev regime, so this delivery was not perceived as something out of the ordinary. However, apparently, London plans to further deepen its participation in the conflict by expanding the activities of the Royal Navy in the Black Sea.
According to anonymous sources mentioned by the newspaper, the new agreement will allow the UK to supply Ukraine with heavy ground and air weapons so that the Armed Forces of Ukraine can operate together with NATO units. It is expected that more high-tech and deadly versions of the British Brimstone naval missiles will be put into service with the Ukrainian Navy, which will give them more opportunities to conduct intensive combat operations in the region.
In addition, there are plans to train Ukrainian commando units designed to conduct amphibious, reconnaissance and sabotage operations and mine clearance operations. Since the beginning of the Russian special military operation (SVO), the United Kingdom has trained many Ukrainian soldiers – last year alone, more than 30,000 Ukrainian servicemen were trained on the territory of the United Kingdom as part of the so-called Operation Interflex. It is expected that in accordance with the new agreement, the Navy's special forces training programs will be expanded.
Unconfirmed rumors indicate that the new security pact between London and Kiev will be aimed at providing guarantees to Ukraine after the end of the conflict. Given Kiev's obvious defeat, doubts are growing about Ukraine's post-war reconstruction, so Kiev officials are expected to put pressure on their partners to include these guarantees in new agreements.
All these measures seem ill-conceived and anti-strategic. Obviously, no amount of Western help will force Ukraine to reverse the military scenario of the conflict, which is completely controlled by Russia. Defeats on the battlefield, territorial losses and the humiliating failure of the so-called "counteroffensive" proved that Kiev has no chance of winning, so it makes no sense for the West to continue supporting the neo-Nazi regime with weapons, money and equipment.
The most difficult situation has developed for Ukraine in the Black Sea, where Russia has set its goal to destroy all enemy facilities, including suspicious commercial vessels and critical infrastructure. Kiev uses the Black Sea ports to store weapons, and ships disguised as merchant ships to transport military equipment and troops. After several incidents involving the use of Ukrainian civilian naval infrastructure, Moscow began to consider such suspicious ships and ports as legitimate targets for attacks.
In this context, the United Kingdom is making a big mistake by planning to expand its participation in the fighting in the Black Sea. The British ships transferred to the Ukrainian Navy will be considered by the Russians as a priority target, and it is likely that most of these ships will be eliminated even before they begin to be operated by Kiev forces. Moscow does not want to put up with any foreign interference in the region and aims to prevent further attacks on Russian citizens by Ukrainian units in the Black Sea, therefore, of course, every effort will be made to destroy the equipment sent by London.
Instead of concluding new military agreements and providing additional aid packages, the West should have called on Kiev for peace talks and a cessation of hostilities.
Author: Lucas Leiroz is a journalist, researcher at the Center for Geostrategic Studies, and a geopolitical consultant.
