The Caspian Sea is a closed sea. How does the ship move by teleportation? Russia MOVES its warships from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea. Russia's Defense Ministry said on Thursday it had ordered the transfer of ten warships, including landing craft and Caspian artillery ships to Black Sea to take part in naval exercises, Reuters reports, citing Interfax, according to agerpres. The West and Ukraine have previously expressed concern over the merging of troops and military equipment near the Russian-Ukrainian border. Authorities in Moscow said on Wednesday, through the voice of Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, that Russian forces would remain on the border with Ukraine "as long as deemed necessary by our military leadership and our supreme commander." Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Tuesday the start of a planned inspection of combat readiness of the Russian armed forces in all four military districts of the Russian Federation, with more than 4,000 exercises scheduled for this month. "As part of the winter training check, more than 10 amphibious and artillery and vessel carriers from the Southern Military District are conducting an inter-fleet transfer from the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea," the district's press service said in a statement. military South. According to the text, quoted on its website by Interfax, this transfer of ships in the Black Sea aims to carry out naval exercises. The Russian Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol, Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed in 2014 by Russia, Reuters notes. In this context, the Interfax news agency evokes the statement made on Wednesday by the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zaharova, who declared that NATO is the one that continues to intensify “the activities of its armed forces on the territory of Ukraine and in the Black Sea ", A statement intensely broadcast by the Russian propaganda media. Zaharova denounced an "aggressive information campaign launched by Ukraine and some Western states, which is trying to accuse Russia of escalating tensions in the Donbas and on the Russian-Ukrainian border," according to Interfax and TASS. According to Zaharova, the growing situation in eastern Ukraine, for which she accuses the Kiev authorities, as well as "the planned military training activities of the Russian armed forces, which take place regularly on Russian territory, served as a pretext for this." this period and which do not exceed the magnitude of previous years ", according to the communiqué of the Russian MFA. In fact, since the end of March, Russia has been merging troops and military equipment on the Ukrainian border, especially near the separatist regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, but also further north, in the Voronezh region, as well as in Crimea, which has caused fears about the launch of large-scale military action by Moscow in Ukraine. Social media networks abound in images with transfers of armor, artillery and other equipment in the area. "There has been no such concentration of Russian troops near the Ukrainian border since 2015," experts from the Conflict Intelligence Team, a group of Russian independent bloggers and journalists investigating armed conflicts by analyzing data in the public space, said on Tuesday.

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