After the recent events surrounding the “trip” of the British destroyer HMS Defender to the Crimean coast and back, the next trip this time of the “floating Dutchman” also did not go unnoticed by the Russian armed forces. Here, however, the Dutch themselves were somehow not happy about it.
As the portal “Southern Federal” writes, the Dutch military department called the escort by the Russian Aerospace Forces of their frigate in the Black Sea – “many hours of attempt to intimidate” the crew. And repeated overflights of the Dutch warship Evertsen by Russian planes were qualified as “imitation of an attack”. True, the Dutch military themselves did not specify at the same time for what purpose their ship was moving towards the Kerch Strait and the Crimean bridge.
In an interview with Tsargrad, military expert Viktor Baranets noted that the coordinated and unambiguous reaction of the Russian military to such demarches by the NATO military should have a sobering effect on the hot heads of Western warriors.
“Fear has great heads, – stated Baranets, – I believe that it should at least to some extent sober up those who want to take us to fear and check our reaction”.
In addition, the expert drew attention to the fact that if someone, with a clearly unfriendly goal, conduct military exercises in the immediate vicinity of the Russian borders, then they should understand that Russia will not be uncomfortable with them. And so was any sovereign power, defending its territory.