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What's wrong with it? It put the helicopter at risk and was a deliberate act of provocation. > Even the U.S. Navy ships fire warning flares at other vessels w
by 9935c101ab17a66 20d ago
What's wrong with it? It put the helicopter at risk and was a deliberate act of provocation.
> Even the U.S. Navy ships fire warning flares at other vessels when they approach close.
Yes. A helicopter is not a vessel. These kind of monitoring exercises are common amongst both Russians and Americans when operating near each other or their territorial waters.
Russians frequently overfly American and NATO craft. Russia has also been committing acts of sabotage around the world, but more specifically has been cutting undersea communication cables, so they are absolutely worthy of scrutiny.
The Russian Ambassador to Denmark stated that Russia would “thoroughly investigate all the circumstances of the incident”. That's not exactly a hardline statement indicating Russia knows it was in the right.
- lenkite 19d ago>These kind of monitoring exercises are common amongst both Russians and Americans when operating near each other or their territorial waters. Denmark shares operational intelligence, reconnaissance data, and positional tracking regarding Russian naval assets. It would be ridiculous stupidity to permit a NATO nation aircraft that explicitly admitted it was performing reconnaissance on your military vessel to come close and obtain target data sent to Ukraine to sink your ship. Esp after it ignored radio warnings. > Russia has also been committing acts of sabotage around the world, but more specifically has been cutting undersea communication cables Do note that the later investigations did not establish Russian responsibility and investigators found no evidence of Russian sabotage. Refer to WSJ & Reuters articles on this. Can you point me to a specific incident in which Russian sabotage was established ?