We need platforms for attacking Russia - General Smeshko
Ukraine should create maximum problems for Russia at the diplomatic level. Among these are the demand for the exclusion of the Russian Federation from international organizations and the abolition of the Montreux Convention regulating navigation through the Bosphorus.
This was stated by former head of the SBU, Colonel General Igor Smeshko, on the air of the talk show "Freedom of Speech," as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to him, in particular, Ukraine should seek the exclusion of Russia from the Danube Commission, as a country that does not have access to the Danube.
“Now the first thing that needs to be done is to create our own naval forces, build them up, and not just boats, but create serious ones, according to the maritime strategic concept of Ukraine. And secondly, create problems on diplomatic platforms in which Russia will roll back diplomatically,” said the former head of the SBU.
He recalled that Russia is a member of the Danube Commission.
“It does not have the banks of the Danube; it entered there in the 90s, using an opportune moment. Why don’t we raise the issue of excluding Russia, why don’t we raise the issue of the Bosporus Straits, the Montreux Doctrine, because one of the Black Sea countries is seizing the territory of another Black Sea country and is behaving aggressively. They need to create diplomatic problems, and we need to create platforms for information warfare and attacks,” Smeshko said.
Glenn Howard, president of the Jamestown Foundation , previously demanded the repeal of the Montreux Convention . He believes the 1936 Montreux Convention, which restricts the presence of warships arriving from other regions in the Black Sea, should be revised as soon as possible to allow the US Navy to maintain a permanent presence in the waters and exert pressure on Russia.
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