Russian Navy Moving Kilo Attack Boats to Safety from Ukraine Strike Risk, Says U.K. MoD

Improved Kilo-class (Varshavyanka-class) attack submarine. RIA Novosti Photo

Russia has “almost certainly” moved its Black Sea Fleet Kilo-class submarines from Sevastopol, Crimea, to the Novorossiysk port in Krasnodar Krai, the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense announced in a Tuesday intelligence report.

Russia could have up to four of the diesel-electric attack boats in the Black Sea.
All of the Kilo-class are capable of launching Kalibr NK cruise missiles. Sea-launched Kalibirs have been used...

https://news.usni.org/2022/09/20/russian-navy-moving-kilo-attack-boats-to-safety-from-ukraine-strike-risk-says-u-k-mod

Panel: NATO Still Key to Counter Persistent Russian Threat

Atlantic Council in Washington, D.C. Russia also is intent on splitting frontline states like his and the other Baltic nations from their allies and playing on the divergent security concerns of separating NATO’s northern partners from its southern members.

“We cannot lose our strategic patience” in deterring further Russian aggression and meeting new challenges it poses, Karoblis said. The Kremlin’s goal is to leave “western security organizations and institutions severely diminished” in...

https://news.usni.org/2019/11/19/panel-nato-still-key-to-counter-persistent-russian-threat

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